?On August 19, electrical cabs began to ply for hire in the streets of London in competition with the ordinary hackney carriages. The new vehicle resembles very closely a horseless and shaftless coupé, carried on four wooden solid rubber-tired wheels. A three-horsepower motor is supplied with current by 1,400 pounds of storage batteries. The cabs can travel up to thirty-five miles per charge and at speeds up to nine miles per hour. It is intended to have electric supply stations at other parts of London besides that at Juxon Street, Lambeth.?