Electric automobile its construction care and operation (1900)
Woods, C. E. (Clinton Edgar) · Chicago New York, H. S. Stone & co. · leaf 154
oller is on first or second speed—never with the controller on maximumspeed. On some vehicles the reversing switch isso arranged in the controller that from aperpendicular position forward it runs thevehicle forward and from the other perpen-dicular it runs the vehicle backward. Butthis is a faulty… … STREET OPERATION controller and reversing switch may be, andit should never be resorted to except in casesof emergency, as when the other brake orbrakes fail utterly to do their work. While the foregoing rules are very gen-eral, they are absolutely reliable in principle;and no matter what make of…
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