The power-driven car has become not only a luxury, but a necessity, and this has been well demonstrated the past season by the great number of cars purchases by municipalities for use in an official capacity, one large city having placed an order for four 5-ton trucks with which to move ashes and garbage. Prejudice and skepticism are rapidly melting away, and the close of the 1908 season will leave but few conquests for the automobile to make. The rapid stride made in education of the general public along the line of power-driven cars has been nothing less than phenomenal, and pursuant to this education in technical and mechanical workings and improvements, comes a demand for all that is available in the way of a perfected machine.