STORAGE BATTERY CAR.;

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1183, 19 July 1911, Page 10

STORAGE BATTERY CAR.;

AN INTERESTING TROPHECY. Mr. W. D. Lysnar, tho Mayor of Gisborne, who is at present in town, states thst with tho outgoing mail for America the Gisborno Council is ordering two IMison storago battery tramcars, which are tho latest development in electrical traction. When in America last year Mr. Lysnar had a personal interview"with Mr. Edison, who was then engaged in adapting his storago batteries to heavy locomotives. There is a law in New York State which prohibits locomotives burning coal from entering within a certain radius of the city, and at present some of the_ lines hava made their terminus outside the radius, and others continue with tho aid of an adoption of tho overhead wire electric system. Having invented a light storage battery tramcar, Mr. Edison was seeking io devise a means whereby locomotives could proceed right into New York city under electric power. Mr. Lysnar has the fullest confidence in tho new order of street cars. "I will go as far as to say," said he, "that within three years you in Wellington will have commenced to scrap your cars in favour of the storage battery car." The type of caT to bo ordered by Gisborno is a box-car, with longitudinal seats, capable of accommodating 2G passengers. The ear weighs 4V tons (as against 9 or 10 tons weight of Wellington cars), and can travel at the rate of fifteen miles per hour. The cost of each car will be about XlloO, and delivery will bo given !)0 days after receipt of.tho order in NewYork.