Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Aluminum Vehicles. [ARTICLE]

Aluminum Vehicles.

Aluminum cabs,, or fiacres, are about to te tested in Faris by the cab co npany “LUrbaine,” which owns the largest number of the fiaeres circulating in the French eapital. The company is using now tifi plate cases, or bodies, for its cabs,- and it is reckoned that an ordinary opupe weighs about 500 kilogrammes—a little more than 1,000 pounds. It is expected that this weight will bok greatly reduced if experiment shall prove that aluminum cabs a e a feasible and practical thing.