Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1895 'E. J. Club be & Co. also made an electric parcel van supplied with fifty-six E.P.S. cells, the motor being one of Crompton's. The electric vehicle which ran in the Paris-Bordeaux race was of seven horse-power normal, carrying thirty-eight cells in twelve boxes, weighing altogether sixteen or seventeen hundred weight. It ran a considerable distance, but it was found that it could only run forty-five miles before it was necessary to change its accumulators.'[1]
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