Discussion on “dynamo electric lighting for motor cars” (Waller), “advantages of clutch type generator and separate starting and lighting units for motor cars” (Churchward), and “electrical equipment of gasoline automobi

H. Ward Leonard: I should like to put before the meeting what I think are a few of the desirable features we should strive to reach in an automatic lighting system for charging a storage battery and operating the lights upon a motor car, and I think the same conditions, so far as the automatic lighting and charging are concerned, may apply equally well to the case of train lighting. These are very broad generalities that I shall specify and while, in each case, they may have been already realized in some one of the various systems, I am not sure that there is upon the market at the moment any one system that contains them all. The points to which I refer are as follows: