Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — A House on Wheels. [ARTICLE]

A House on Wheels.

One of these days people will move their houses instead of their household goods, if an English inventor’s plan succeeds. 11. J. Lawson, of London, is going to build a two-story house to be run upon wheels and be propelled by a motor underneath. The house will contain four rooms, and its framework is to be of steel tubing. The upper story’s construction will be of such a nature that it can be closed up and thus be made capable of passing under a bridge across a cut in a road. All sorts of conveniences are planned for this house on wheels. It will havwaf bath room and all the appurtenances thereto. The kitchen will contain a range and a goodrsized receptacle for fuel. Then there will be a refrigerator and ample storage for edibles. Mr. Lawson is the man who sixteen years ago tried so earnestly to make motor cars popular in England, but without avail. This latest idea of his is on the same principle of propulsion as the motor cars, and Mr. Lawson holds that it is as practicable to make a motor house that will travel about on wheels as it is a wagon. The house on wheels is already a fact in the United States, although horses form the motor power. One family has been travelling about the United States, although horses have been the motor power. One family has been travelling about the Wesivrn States all summer in this manner.