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| ... goods trad: rigidly traditional tracksuit: sweats tramping: hiking togs: swimsuit tomato sauce: catsup Toodle pip: Good-bye (often slightly jocular, and "English") torch: flashlight trolley: shopping cart trundler: shopping cart tyre: tire unwaged: unemployed Waikikamukau Mythical town that is so remote it makes Eketahuna look like a metropolis. The essence ... |
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| ... me that if you put the right kind of a battery into an automobile, it could scoot along pretty lively. Look what speed a trolley car can make." "Yes, Tom, but there again they get their power from an overhead wire." "Some of them There's a new storage battery been ... |
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| ... down. That will leave me a margin to work on. And going to have it fixed so I can take current from any trolley line, as well as from a regular charging station. My battery will be capable of being recharged very quickly, or, in case of need, I can ... |
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| ... from afar, a peculiar humming sound. He paused to listen. "Trolley car," observed Mr. Sharp. "Maybe one of us could go somewhere on the trolley and get help. There it is," and he pointed to the electric vehicle, moving along about half a mile away, at the foot of a ... |
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| ... young inventor pointed triumphantly to the fast disappearing electric. CHAPTER XXIV ON THE TRACK "What do you mean?" asked Mr. Damon. "Will the electric trolley pull us to a charging station?" "No, we'll not need to go to a station," answered the youth. "If we can get my car to ... |
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| ... to a charging station?" "No, we'll not need to go to a station," answered the youth. "If we can get my car to the trolley tracks I can charge my battery from there. And I think we can push the auto near enough. It's down hill, and I've got a ... |
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| ... line to permit Tom to run his charging wire over to it. "Why bless my soul!" exclaimed Mr. Damon, looking up. "There's no overhead trolley wire. The car must run on storage batteries." "Third rail, more likely," was the opinion of Mr. Sharp and so it proved. "I can charge ... |
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| ... Third rail, more likely," was the opinion of Mr. Sharp and so it proved. "I can charge from either the third rail or the trolley wire," declared Tom, who was insulating his hands in rubber gloves, and getting his wires ready. In a short time he had the proper connections ... |
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| ... long will it take?" asked Mr. Damon. "About two hours," answered the lad. "We'll probably have to disconnect our wires several times, whenever a trolley car comes past. By my system I can recharge the battery very quickly. "Do you suppose the owners of the road will make any objection?" ... |
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| ... like that, Tom Swift!" "Oh, I mean it exactly that way," laughed Tom. "But will you come." "No, thanks, going home by trolley," and then as the odd man went in the house to speak to Tom's father, the two lads busied themselves about the airship. This was a large ... |
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| ... candle they looked at one another, and then at the fantastic pillars of salt all about them. Then Mr. Damon started forward. "Bless my trolley car!" he exclaimed. "It isn't possible! There must be some mistake. If we'll keep on we'll come out all right. You know your way about, ... |
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