A Three League Boot.
After the motor-car comes the motor-boot. M. Oonstantini has invented a pair, and has careered on or in them through the streets of Paris at the rate of 25 miles an hour. The invention consists of tiny motor-cars fitted to Wellington boots, ffteen inches long. Each boot has four wheels. Power is derived from 1] h.p. motors, and accumulators are carried in a belt connected by wires to the motors. The cost of a pair of motor-boots is about £20. They are capable, it is said, of a speed of thirty five miles an hour.
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Progress, Volume II, Issue 7, 1 May 1907, Page 259
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99A Three League Boot. Progress, Volume II, Issue 7, 1 May 1907, Page 259
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