Thomas A. Edison makes the important declaration that he has at last solved the problem of providing cheap and serviceable storage batteries for vehicles. He is quoted as saying: "By October my light battery will be ready for the market and we will be ready to equip automobiles of all descriptions. To reach a definite conclusion of its possibilities, I manufactured 11,000 cells and equipped about 160 conveyances. In Washington we attached the batteries to a number of express delivery wagons, with the result that after many months the cost of operation has been found to be 58 per cent that of horses. The batteries manufactured varied in types, so that I might obtain the happy average I wished to strike, and I am prepared to make the unqualified statement that the Edison battery will revolutionize the storage battery problem. As to it8 power there can be no question. I had a big two-ton car brought to my factory in Orange, where it was fitted with cells, and we took it out and sent it over the roads of New Jersey at 33 miles per hour. "