Claim: The Patton Motor Company made street cars (vehicles that travel on rails, typically in a street) with no poles, wires, or power house, and guaranteed to provide street car service under average conditions for less than five dollars per car mile for power.
Evidence: A streetcar or tram is a vehicle that travels on rails, typically in a street. The Patton Motor Company was based in 340 and 342 Dearborn St., Chicago, where it manufactured around 1898 patented electric street cars. They required no poles, no wires, no power house, no bonding of rails but only ordinary track. The company guaranteed to provide street car service under average conditions for less than two cents per car mile for power.