Note 1 — Chapter III · THE NATURE OF KEELY’S PROBLEMS. 1885 TO 1887.
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At the close of the year 1885, everything seemed to promise full and complete success during the coming year. Mr. Charles Collier, the patent lawyer, shared Keely’s confidence in the near completion of his “struggles.” The stock-holders were enthusiastic, and the stockbrokers were on the qui vive, anticipating a great rise in the shares of The Keely Motor Company. Mr. Collier had written in August to Major Ricarde-Seaver1: “The Bank of England is not more solid than is our enterprise. My belief is that the present year will see us through, patents and all.”