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STOCKHOLDERS' THE KEELY "MIRACLE" OF FLOATING WEIGHTS IN JAR OF WATER By J. J. Smith, Director of Keely Motor Copyright. C. C.

Collier, Philadelphia, Pa. 1 -1 Mi I or Ti cmw fell sDSQ-fl ll rut 1 1 II 1 11 I lilllll ppllSlSllllffllf III II I 11 Jl'jJP ip ll llllllllllll sir I IMfen 11 mmm: EXACTLY HOW THE "MOTOR" WAS WORKED. In takinsr down the nosf wlnVli tu rt.v.. t- i rm iiviu un. jiouuiwi aAis on wnicn revoivea tne uuu ui uic wuiui, wnis, me nrst traua was dismvprfl Thief as a nnnrt nr i.t.

motor the late wlv. uudiy siian or axis wnicn passed through the hub of the moto bx, a hollow post, and a hole extending down throueh the floor led to r. a careful investigation. Un- ttme of i. oi an unused store room beneath, and always kept locked, was found running ulc limucrsSUDrmrtlnD't hl onr nn irnn clitf ti 11 ..11 1 knlo tlio tlrxf I 1 story.

XsUnctiy In. J(vem me to its SECOND STORY DIAGRAM, SHOWING POSITIONS OF MACHINERY. 3th in It. ijbjection- SECOND STORY. III MMBMHaaMwaaBaManMaanaaaaanBaB lapsed ev- 1 decrements innocent the jrocess of vc unectiy unaer the Hollow post of the engine.

sll3ft "as follovved to the side wall. At its termination was another pulley. Directly beneath this, cU, ii aiiVe 1 floor of the room- another iron shaft came through the wall, also with a pulley on it. A smau, well-worn belt was found, which fitted over and exactly connected these two pulleys. Going into the small rear room, mostly filled with old junk and the door of which was raised considerably above that of the middle room, there was discovered beneath a box and an oilcloth spread out on the floor a trap door.

This trap opened over the shait, which came through the wall. Here it was found that the shaft connected with a small water motor of peculiar construction, the water being supplied by a lead pipe coming in from the outside of the building. Extending irom this water motor was a small rubber tube. It was found that by attaching a rubber bulb to this tube the water motor could be started by pressing the bulb and would stop when the pressure was released. This water motor is now the laboratory of Mr.

Kinraide, in Boston. The rubber tubing was found also to extend between the walls and ceiling trom the water motor to a point under the Keely motor, then up through the stationary post of the engine and to terminate in the binding post or socket into which the end of the wire was inserted which connected the motor ith the Further investigation revealed the fact that there were in the laboratory different sets of transmitting wire, exactly alike in external appearance, but one was hollow, the other solid, both, as mentioned, about the size ot a knitting needle, and with connecting tips that made it impossible to tell which was hollow and which was solid, except by cutting or trying to blow through them. A DUPLICATE TRANSMITTER. A duplicate, art exact copy in external appearance, was found of the latest perfected transmitter, the gradual perfection of years of patient study and The duplicate transmitter exactly resembled its mate, but upon opening it the Chladni plates and the resonators were lacking. Instead was a rubber diaphragm stretched across the sphere, dividing it vertically into two airtight compartments.

The long screw, with its head in the little bulb on the side of the sphere, and which in the exhibition transmitter regulated the position of the resonator, in the duplicate transmitter worked in a fine thread through a small brass plate clamped in the center of the diaphragm. By turning the knob the diaphragm could be thrown backward or forward. By connecting the motor and the real transmitter by means of the hollow wire, then turning the knob in the proper direction, the diaphragm would be thrown forward, the air forced through the wire and down through its various connections to the water motor, releasing an automatic cutoff and setting the water motor in motion. "A more careful investigation of the real Keely motor showed that the stationary axis was hollow. Within this hollow shaft, hich as only a dummy, he real axle revolved, over one end of which passed the belt which ran down through the hollow post to the pulley underneath on the end of the iron shaft described.

This inner axle, run by the belt, carried the hub of the motor and caused the same to revolve when it revolved. How simple! Yet this device has been too much for some of the best mechanical experts in the country, to say netting of the crowd of open-mouthed laymen. "Mr. Keely would work off his philosophy, screw up his transmitter a little, and while the air was finding its way to the water motor he would rind the proper chord. Then, presto, away went the engine, run by the sympathetic negative attraction of the triune polar fMeh will should be ri cf the 3 1 11 1 i I 5 TW if 1 PL l-jngto Tj, wrote to letter in behalf affairs ase ef the -avoidable ad lawyer i in regard si once, ihe wfcole tie ir.i;cy jsitlmpjy at zn to sdieil just 5 the lorR- I) The stars show solid rubber bulb scattered about in the flooring.

A. Stairway from lower floor. B. Hallway. C.

Front room. D. Middle room. E. Rear room.

1. False shelf. 2. False desk. 3.

False table. 4. Entrance to M. S. wire.

5. Port hoi 6. M. D. wire.

7. Writing desk. 8. Table. 9.

Experimental engine. 10. Trap door. 11. Closet.

12. Shelf. 13. Chimney. 14.

Shelf 13. Two steps up to E. 16. Post for guard rail 17. Port hole.

18. Trap door. 19. Shelf. 20.

Skylight. 21. Trap door. 22. Lii 21.

23. Accumulator. 24. First circuit engina 25. Brake.

28. Hollow pedestal. 27. Musical sphere. 28.

Piston plate. quarter? of an Inch, weighs about a pound. Is inclosed in brass rlns, sind exhibits no magnetic power. I am that, shut up in ft tie wcrM THE HISTORY OF THE KEELY MOTOR COMPANY. By Charles S.

Hill, Attorney for Mrs. Keely. las lumber and connected with the wire that seemed to behind 5 tne eompi'fs, iiosoroea some seven pints oi nyarogen gas. -J rapidly whirled by a steam engine a nope Ol i story runs ihat ii was re- I leriuin miir.Ltr of hours; st is won- I I'rom hich t-cmed to How ill in connection with the apparatus far as can be ascertained the first organization to that subtle inlluence which the needle I writing I the eomrass obeyed S' uie wont i formed for the purpose of bringing out and controlling Mr. Keely's Inventions was the Keely Motor Association," whose headquarters were at 229 Broadwav.

New What, vt-r may be thought of all this, it is a fact that the disk tosnmo thus vitalized in Its atomic or molecular construction, adheres to i he underside of certain metallic resonant structure as if held llici l-y magnetic attraction, and also supports a weight huns to of over :5 Disassociated from the peculiar vi-l riitins apparatus, it falls, like any other heavy body, and though that apparatus attracts the cilsk, even with the attached weights, ii is iiKap.ible of aU'actinfr anything else; it will not support the smallest iron Here, then, is a strong pulling power in rxerciife In certain circumstances when two bodies are in contact. Can it puli bodies together which ar not in contact? jested his se-after sret ap-aftnfshed a Bloom Company. DEC 20, 1S98, visdted Keely's shop in company with Mr. Charles S. Hill and Mr.

T. Burton Kinraide and saw the following: A water motor attached to the water pipe entering the Duilding. with sundiry attachments. Thl9 motor was in an excavation of a small rear room, a trap door in the floor covered with rubbish concealing it. A mechanism was connected with the motor-to set it in motion and stop it.

A small rubber tube was attached to thiss with a rubber ball on its eno I pressed the ball and started the motor, released the pressure andi the motor stopped. A shaft was attached to the motor, passing through the walL A band pulley wjis attached to this, and directly over this at the top of the room was a similar pulley, with a shaft attached ami extending along the ceiling to a point directly under one of the pillars supporting the center shaft of the engine, which-stood In the middle room on the second floor. At this point was a small pulley and over It were two holes bored) through the floor, apparently for the passage of a round belt. The engine on the secondi floor had been dismantled by removing the central revolving parts, but the other parts were in the place so often seen by visitors. The supporting pillar on the left sid of the engine was hollow, and on both, sides bore marks of friction of the belt.

The position of the center shaft of the engine, with a pulley on It, was readily seen. The box in which the shaft runs was hollow, having room enough for the pulley. The apparent bolts and nuts which held the box in place were false. The above contrivance was such that when the water motor beneath the lowrer floor was started the engine on the second floor would be put in motion. The binding screw to which Mr.

Keely always attached the wire from his so-called transmitter was hollow and connected to a tube running along the inside of the stationary rim off the engine, and passing down through the engine bed plate and the floor could readily be connected with the water motor. Where the tube passed from the engine rim to the bed plate It was concealed by one of the resonators on ths outside of the rinu A piece of this resonator had been cut out to allow it to go over the tube. After being put in place the cutout piece was inserted, effectually concealing the tube. If everything were In place a pressure of air on the binding screw on the engine would start the water motor, and that in turn would revolve the engine at a slow speed. The small tube attached to rim of engine could not easily be told) from the numbers of wires running close to it.

The shaft pulleys and tubes at the ceiling of lower room were concealed! by a false ceiling, easily removed. Globe Motor In Front Hooms This had been opened and taken apart. Saw a strong spring with gearing, which could be fitted Into the globe, also a number of diaphragms, some flexible and in order, others hard and not easily moved It was evident these had been, in some way, used to operate the globe motor. Compan with match Instead of a needie. I examined this and found) a false bottom which concealed, a piece of iron like a needle.

On revolving this the match needle would, revolve. The disintegrator and other fine pieces or machinery, sensitized disks, wires, bad been placed in a safe deposit vault for safekeeping, and I did not see anyi of these on Dec. 20. Notwithstanding all this evidence of fraud, both Mr. Hill and Mr.

Kinraide were of the opinion that Mr. Keely had really discovered some great principle which could be worked out by the use of the machines In the safe vaults, and that in order to relieve the pressure on him by the stockholders and others demanding exhibitions he worked thes appliances and methods to satisfy them, and to leave him free, as much as possible, to perfect his great discovery. This was strengthened by the fact that Mr. Kinraide had himself made some experiments In his own laboratory in the same direction, and had succeeded in obtaining rotary motion on the compass needle from vibrations. Inasmuch as Mr.

Keely had called Mr. Kinraide to his deathbed, and declared that he would be able-to carry on his work to completion, and further charged him to protect Mrs. Keely's Interests. I do not besitate to recommend! to the stockholders the adoption of Mr. Hill's proposition as being for the best interests of the stockholders.

Dec. 28, 1898. In response to a telegram from Mr. Hill I visited Philadelphia and went immediately to Keely's shop. The evidence of fraud I saw on the 20th inst.

had been mostly removed, and nearly everything was ready for shipment to Boston Some of my examinations there had to be made hastily, as Mr. Rudolph and his workmen were there, and President Ackerman soon appeared. It was not desirable at this time to make any explanations. The device for operating the wooden compass and the disintegrator itself were examined with care at the Hotel Stratford. Some of the facts I ascertained are as follows: Transmitter Those shown, to Investigators contained a disk surrounded by wire pieces of different lengths, and some other simple constructions, said to operate on being moved by a screw from the outside- to a position in harmony with a disk of similar construction screwed on the outside of the globe.

The real transmitter was exactly similar in external appearance, but contained a simple diaphragm, which, being pressed by the screw from the outside, produced an air pressure which would be transmitted by a tube running to the machine to be operated. In the case of the engine, the attachment was made by a so-called wire," but this was really a minute tube. My description of Dec. 20 of the water motor, shafting, tubing, belting, shows how this machine was really operated. The Globe Motor contained a heavy coiled spring, with gearing.

A diaphragm connected with it pressed against the shell, acting as a brake. The spring having been previously wound up was inoperative to move the globe until the brake was released. This was done by screwing up the diaphragm in the transmitter, and the globe would revolve. A small tube was used to connect the transmitter and the brake in the motor. The floatluR vrelgrht which would rise in.

a Jar of water. A heavy piece of brass was shown and allowed to be examined by visitors. The real ono was an exact imitation in size and appearance, but really a Jight, hollow box with an opening ialt, so arranged that when an air pressure was exerted on top of the water in. the Jar the water would be forced into the box, and, being made heavier than the water, it would sink. When the pressure wa taken off the box would rise or float.

The cover of the Jar contained a concealed diaphragm. A connection between this and the diaphragm In the transmitter by a small tube explains the mystery. The Connecting Wire "I tested one ot these by submerging one end in water and applying my mouth to the other end. Blowing in; a quantity of bubbles came through the water, demonstrating the fact of the so-called wire being a tube. The Vitalized.

Disk I examined! one of these and found it made partly of brass and partly of iron. When tho brass side was brought against a magnet it did not attach itself. But when the iron side was presented it was attracted and held with considerable force. A large and powerful magnet was concealed in one of the test mediums, the poles coming to the edge of the case, which would firmly hold tho disk against it and support the weight attached to the disk. The iron parts of the disk were gilded to match the brass, giving the appearance of brass.

The disintegrator was in working order. The small revolving wheel In the center was connected with and made to revolve by a clockwork device behind it. Concealed it the disintegrator was a tubular Iron reservoir containing compressed air. The various results shown were set In operation by the mechanical devices on. the outside of the instrument.

The connection between the air reservoir and the parts showing the manifestation of power was a minute tube resembling the various wires In the dvice On this day I saw the shaft of the'engine with the pulley on it. which was concealed In the box over the hollow standard of the engine. I did not see this shaft on Dec 20. The slow motion of the englnwas produced by gearing, which reduced the speed coming from the water motor. I also saw the round belting used or the pulleys connecting the water motor with the engine.

The Musical Sphere, said tobe set in motion by a musical note of a mouth harmonica. The sphere Itself contained a coiled! spring and a diaphragm brake similar to that described in. the gJobe motor-. When, it was desired to operate it by usinsr a bar-' monlca the harmonica iru connected with EOjVTETHHTQ TCSTCN SCIENTIST DID NOT KNOW. Test medium for showing marvelous revolution of compass.

Dotted lines vCSyff Si. show internal arrangement when dia- 'X "Tff jlUrrW phragm is inflated. yy JjySy well and by FMlow-m were -theKeely Mr. Motnr iiress the as tot ho -ieexam-evidence integrity ii invested 'est fraud. 50 far as ely eai- Kd whit Journal" THE KEELY MOTOR A The certain metallic resonant structure referred to was the machine in which Mr.

Keely vitalized or "sensitized" his disks by subjecting them to a heavy pressure of hydrogen. This combination of vitalizing machine and test medium was about the diameter of a cheese box. but not so thick. Jt had a central compartment- which could be hermetically sealed, and in which Mr. Keely would place his disks to be vitalised and then pum; in hydrogen gas, which the peculiar alloy was said to absorb or to occlude in large volume.

By this process the disks became and ready "for uso on the arms and on the hoop of the motor. Filling the space between the circumference and the central compartment, and lit.ing over the collar of the latter, was an enormous Jamin which was not on exhibition. This magnet would almost an nver for a horse collar, if not too heavy. It is numbered -4 -S3, and, owing to its extraordinary size and power, the makers possibly uve some record of when and to whom It was sold. When in position the ends of this magnet came down and together at the under side of the machine, where the non-magnetic disk, after vitalization, was attached or attracted! to show-that it had become powerfully magnetic, when brought under the influence of the machine at the proper point of vocalization.

These non-magnetic disks were of an alloy which closely resembled steel that is. those which the visitors examined. Others have since been found exactly similar in appearance and carefully covered with the same gold foil, but showing active use, which are one face alloy, the other of actual steel or iron. The alloy side shows no attraction for a magnet. The other side does.

At present the test medium or vitalizing Instrument, when graduated with the Jamin magnet, will not chow emite as strong a current of "vibratory attraction for a sensitized disk as when operated by Mr. Mr. Keely's Chart Showing Condition Gov erning Discordants and All Their Combinations. York City. This was organized! in the latter part of 1S73, with Charles G.

Till of Morristown, N. President; James S. Tar-nell of Philadelphia, Vice President; John Stilz of Philadelphia, Treasurer; Jacob W. Schuckers of New Secretary; and Charles B. Collier of Philadelphia, counselor.

In the winter of lS73-'74 steps were taken to charge the character of this organization from an assdeiation to a corporation. As a result of these steps a charter was granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the act of April 29, 1874, to Messrs. Keely, Stilz, Schuckers. Yarnell, Till, Collier, Boekel, and Glocker. petitioners, incorporating them as the Keely Motor company on Nov.

2S, 1S74. The original capital stock was in shares of each. At a meeting of the Board of Directors Dec. 1S74, it was resolved to increase the capital stock to $1,000,000. This resolution was favorably apted upon by the stockholders at their meeting Feb.

13. 1873, and was filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth Aug. 18, 1875. On June 24, 1S79, again it was- decided to increase the capital stock, this time to $5,000,000, the largest capitalization allowed by the laws of Pennsylvania. This increase was tiled at Harrisburg Sept.

30, 1S79. Since that time the status of the company has remained practically unchanged. Under these aspices the work of the company began. One of the first acts was to build a new workshop of brick on North Twentieth street to supersede the two small frame structures constructed by Keely himself on the rear of the lot he then owned on Ridge avenue. The first engine to be set up in the new structure was a gigantic affair called the multipltcator," on which the company expended in all about $00,000 before the work on it ceased.

At the outset it was determined by the company to keep Mr. Keely's salary account and construction account separate. The first vote of the company relative to Mr. Keely's salary was on Aug. 3.

1S75, when it was fixed at $500 per month, to begin July 1, 1875. At that time expenses incurred by Mr. Keely prior to July 1. 1S75, amounting in all to $11,500, were approved by the company and paid Mr. Keely by checks.

Dec. 17, 187(5, Mr. Keely's falary was reduced to $200, to take effect Dec. 1, 1870. Payments under this resolve were irregular, Sir.

Keely receiving $1,618,215 in 1877, $1,521.22 in 1878, and 79 in 1879 and 1S80. Dec. 29, 1879, Mr. Keely's salary was fixed at $250 per month, which was paid in fulj until Dec. 1.

1SS2. At this time a growing dissatisfaction which had made itself felt among the stockholders at the loose business methods of tho company came to a head. Dec. 8, 1880, Mr. John II.

Lorimer, a prominent and highly esteemed business-man of Philadelphia, had been elected to the Board of Directors, in order to perform hi3 duties more satisfactorily he made a careful investigation and analysis of the situation, which he embodied in his famous minority report to the stockholders. The loose way In which the treasury stock had been manipulated, the apparently injudicious forcing process applied by the company to Mr. Keely, which had resulted in a mutual distrust and practical paralysis of operations, were fully shown up by Mr. Lorimer. Mr.

Lorimer's position was that at no time in the past had the Keely Motor company been in a condition fit to be presented to the public in the shape of an incorporated company offering its stock as an investment; that being of Itself a false pretense, inasmuch as the company had no property to represent the amount nominally asked for from the public." Mr. Lorimer-8 motive, apparently, was to reconcile the existing differences between Mr. Keely and the company, and as a result therefrom t0 obtain something of value from Mr. Keely which should form a valid asset of the corporation. In response to Mr.

Lorimer's efforts Mr. Keely dids on Oct. 25, 1881, present a proposition to the boar(j defining his idea of what a righteous mutual adjustment wouia be. His communication was, however, rejected as absolutely unworthy consideration. Unfortunately Mr.

Lorimer's efforts in the whole matter were without avail with one exception. in ni3 wmphlet, entitled Keely Motor Company as It Appeara to Be from the Official Records at Harrisburg," dated Nov. 11 1S82, Mr. Lorimer had asserted! that the company had no valia existence, since it had not complied with the law by paying the required tax on the increase of the capital stock, The present writer believes that Mr. Lorimer's position on this point was perfectly correct and that the validity of the corporation is assailable by inform2tion to the proper authorities, a course which is hardly necessarjr considering the present status of the Keely inventions.

By the sworn certificates Inclosed with the above by the Auditor General it appears that the company is Indebted as follows: Keely. The magnet HIS. LABORATORY. I r'j PISTON. 1 1 THE FUATJDUUENT A Vitalized disk.

B. Inner spoke with disk. Resonator. D. Hollow pedestal.

Transmitting wire running to transmitter. Balance on increased capital bonus Balance on capital stock tax Tax forlS94 4,736.39 850.00 has evidently lost some of its strength and needs recharging. Turning again to the report of the eminent Boston scientist, we read that, as Mr. Gladstone says', Our hands can lay hold, of truths that our arms cannot embrace," and though It takes a phys-ieist to comprehend' this miracle.any careful observer can apprehend it, and, after seeing It repeated many times, if he is measurably well read, is competent to testify that here is a new, subtle, silent, continuous influence, and that It Is called into exercise in connection with certain brief musical sounds. Look again.

On he rude harmonica-trunrpe-r, this magician blows through a small window in the next Toom toward a common zither some ten feet distant, held, upright ott a table by a small standard composed, of a group of meta tubes. The two musical instruments have been carefully attunedi One or the glass plates, against which the end of one of the brass rods was braced, set up against the wall. Just back of the wallpaper was a hollow space irr the plastering. Here wan a contrivance which, when inflated, bulged out the paper slightly, pushed the glass plate correspondingly, shoved the rod a little toward the globe, but enough to release a friction brake and allow a heavy coiled spring previously wound, to revolve the sphere by means of a gearing attachment. The globe stopped automatically.

The air pressure In the wall came by way of rubber tubing extending probably to a concealed rubber bulb operated under Mr. Keelys foot while the magician blw on hit harmonica. Keely's Last Transmitter, Showing HiddenRubber Diaphragm. the sphere try an apparent wire. This "wire" was a tube, I Jill Total i $7,048.89 In the winter of new complications arose in the shape of the suit in equity broUght by Bennett G.

Wilson against Mr. Keely. In that action William Boekel was appointed examiner by the Court of Comm0n Pleas to receive information from Keely. Boekel reported Aug. 23, 1882, unhesitatingly that Keely had discovered a new force, but requested that he, Boekel, should have further time in which to be instructed by Keely.

On the 11th of November an arbitration agreement was arrived at between Mr. Keely and the company to the effect that Mr. Keely should receive $1,000 in cash and 130 shares of company stock In full settlement of all past accounts and an additional 1,500 shares on condition that he should continue to Instruct Boekel and place him in a position to operate the generator by Dec. 10, 1S82, which, however, Was apparently never done. After that Keely's salary account stopped, no appropriation being made for him at the meeting of Dec.

26, 1S82. From this period to April 9, 1S90, the company was for much of the time inert, the only payments made to Keely being in the shape of loans for the completion of his generator, amounting in all to $8,744.75. During this period the valuable sympathy and financial assistance of Mrs. Clara Bloomfleld-Moore were secured by Mr. Keely, and from her he received large sums of money for rights in his aerial navigator and much advertising of Incalculable value.

Feb. 23, 1892, the company asserts that it raised the sum of $2,824.86, which was paid to Mr. Keely to assure the completion of his commercial engine. Nothing was then done by the company till the agreement of May 18, 1806, which finally defined all the rights of both parties and provided that Keely's salary should be $250 per month. This sum was punctually paid him till his decease.

In stock and eauh the company hat paid Mr. Keely approximately $200,000, and on, hi construction account nearly a much more It is safe1 to amq roe that the total Income to the company aa-ide from a-lfta of lock, to Ttrloai Individual mmst Jbavo been, JoOO.OCXi at least. MR. KEELY'S CRANIAL CHART. and was attached to tne narmonaca oy a tuDe or Dag of India rubber.

Pressing this would produce pressure of air in the sphere sufficient to release the diaphragm brake, and the sphere would revolve. The sphere would be insulated by a glass plate to show there was no magnetism to operate it. When it was desired to operate the sphere by a musical note made by Mr. Keely sitting In another room, the following was the process: At the end of a fixed bench In. the rear room on the second floor, on which the sphere was to be placed on glass, and directly opposite the axis of the sphere, there was a cavity in the wall from which had been removed an iron case, six Inches In diameter, containing a diaphragm six inches in diameter, having a rubber tube attached and leading' to the back side of the diaphragm.

From the other side of the diaphragm ran a quarter-inch rod, which came out through the head of a nut attached to the Iron case. The face of the iron box was flush with the wall and neatly covered with wall paper not easily noticed. A groove was cut in the wall to receive a tube leading from the iron box to one of the other rooms. In the middle room this tube was concealed by the oilcloth covering on the floor. The whole was so arranged that a pressure of air behind the diaphragm In the box release the brake In the ephere.

and the BDTlzm with, the clockwork In the snhere would cause It to revolve. Releas.ng the air pressure would stop it. I did not see exactly how the pressure was applied, but It probably was done by pressing a ball or diaphragm with the foot in the room where the operator sat. The windows or openings between the rooms gave the Pr- ator a view of the sphere. There was a mat by which the number of revolutions could be told.

The desk over the stairs on the second floor had a. false bottom, which, afforded a good, place to conceal pa ratusnotiuuse. jwtor Keely Motor Company-.