Piute Chieftain | 1916-08-24 | Page 7 | Electric Wheel Chairs

electric wheel chairs electric wheel chairs si similar nillar to those employed nt at the alie exposition last year tire are being used successfully in europe for the wounded and crippled soldiers soldier invariably the convalescent men prefer to direct their own chair rather than to have someone push puah them about one of these chairs clial rs which Is if 0 f swiss ninke make and cots costs a dinall suni sum Is equipped with a one quarter horse power motor suspended between the steering and rear wheel current li Is supplied from a buttery battery of 15 lead plate cells housed in three boxes beneath the i eat the buttery battery Is of 50 ampere hours capacity and provides provider sunk lelent lent energy for a run inn of thirty to forty miles five fhe forba forward rd and five reverse speeds tire ine provided the steering rud operating Is of the very ery simplest