Cars in books, September 1974

It is known that electric cars were popular in America at the turn of the century and consequently I was interested to find, in “Images and Shadows” by Iris Origo, (Kirt Woolf, 1970), a reference to the author’s grandmother still enjoying, approaching the age of 90, “the drive in the electric car through the woods”. I think the year was 1923, at Westbrook and there is a photograph of “My grandmother and Aunt Olivia in ‘the electric’ “, from which someone may recognise the make of this open vehicle with its carriage lamps.

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The subscription to the Car Recovery Service Club is £7.15, not £7.50 as published last month.