electric cars were around at the turn of the 20th century. they competed
with other power options, but lost to gas.
Best,
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Marr" <mmarr@notwires.com>
To: "Frank Fisher" <yellowtr3@yahoo.com>; <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Fw: LBC?
>I remember the electric milk carts too, plus the local "Co-op's" baker's
>delivery van was electric powered. The more things change the more they
>stay the same.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Fisher" <yellowtr3@yahoo.com>
> To: <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:39 PM
> Subject: [TR] Fw: LBC?
>
>
>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: Frank Fisher <yellowtr3@yahoo.com>
>> To:
>> jimmuller@rcn.com
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:40:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TR]
>> LBC?
>>
>>
>> all this talk of "new" electric cars gets me thinking to older times.
>> when i was a kid of about +/-12 years old i used to get up at 4:30 am and
>> walk
>> uphill in the rain to the local dairy.
>> there i would help load the electric
>> delivery cart with hundreds of pints (imperial) of milk.
>> the dairy owner and i
>> would deliver milk to doorsteps till about 8:30 when i had to jump off
>> and
>> head to school. on weekends id complete the full round of deliveries
>> finishing
>> around 1:00 pm.
>> that was about 8 hours of electric cart time. now we where not
>> accelerating like the tesler and our top speed was only around 20 mph.
>> but we
>> put a lot of miles on that cart with a huge weight of milk
>> have we really made
>> electric car progress?
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