Motor Boots.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 10, 1 August 1906, Page 281

Motor Boots.

Parisians were recently startled by seeing a big-booted man whizzmg along the Avenue dcs Champs d'Elysees and thence to the Bois de Bologne at the rate of 25 miles an hour. It was M Constantim, inventor of motor boots, displaying his new footwear. The boot resembles tiny automobiles, 1 5 inches long fixed on high boots. Each has four rubber-tyred wheels eight inches in diameter. Accumulators are carried in a belt. They transmit by wires one and one-fourth horse power to eacli motor. The motor can be run at a speed ranging from 6 to 30 miles an hour. Each boot weighs 16 pounds, but as the feet are not lifted up the weight does not matter. Constantini claims to have travelled several hundred miles with them. He intends to travel from Pans to St. Petersburg on them.

A postal card from the globe-circling motorist, Mr. Charles J. Glidden, has been received from Saigon Cochin China, showing that his mileage up to the 24th March had reached 32,000 miles, covering a period of 257 days. In a postcript Mr. Glidden adds that " China and Japan come next. Have planned fifty thousand miles in fifty countries, to finish 191 1."