The Englishman had learned the secret of American success with automobiles.

The one word "standardization" explained the mystery.
Yet when, a few years before, the English referred to the American automobile as a "glorified perambulator," the characterization was not unjust.

This new method of transportation was slow in finding favor on our side of the Atlantic.

America was sentimentally and practically devoted to the horse as the motive power for vehicles; and the fact that we had so few good roads also worked against the introduction of the automobile.

Yet here, as in Europe, the mechanically propelled wagon made its appearance in early times.