Paris Bans Gas Car for Fashionable Use

The following article, in its entirety, originally appeared in Electric Vehicles magazine, from June 1913.

Paris Bans Gas Car for Fashionable Use

            Paris, first of all the cities of the world to welcome the automobile, has also been the first to put a ban upon the gas car and to establish it from fashionable through-fares. On Easter Sunday there went into effect a law forbidding any kind of gasoline car to put in an appearance upon the most exclusive drive in the city- the Avenue des Accacias [sic]- between the hours of eleven and one o'clock.

            As this is the smartest time of all the twenty-four hours, this edict means something more than would seem on first hearing it. It is the time of all others when the monde walk, drive, or ride, and this particular avenue is the one of all the remainder in the Bois that is their meeting place.

            Heretofore the gas car has been the principal means by which the fashionable world has reached the Bois. Now it will be electric.

Work cited 

Electricity Magazine Corporation. "Paris Bans Gas Car for Fashionable Use." Electric Vehicles, vol. 3, no. 6, June 1913.