10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANDCAR»
Discover the use of
handcar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
handcar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Willowdale
Handcar: Or the Return of the Black Doll
At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, "The Willowdale Handcar" is vintage Gorey.
2
G Company's War: Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in ...
Anderson, Handcar White, 9-14; S/Sgt. Jerome J. Theise, ed., History of the 328th
Infantry Regiment (26th Infantry Division) (Verlagsdruckerei Weis, Austria, n.d.),
11; Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 285, 290-91. 3. History of the 26th Yankee ...
Bruce E. Egger, Lee McMillian Otts, Paul Roley, 1998
3
Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's ...
For instance, in The Girl and Her Trust (1912) Griffith makes the chase sequence
a drama of the gradual revelation of the relative positions of a handcar and a
pursuing train. The handcar exits shot 96, but is picked up in shot 97, closer to the
...
Joyce E. Jesionowski, 1989
4
The Willowdale
Handcar, Or, The Return of the Black Doll
Setting out from Willowdale by handcar, three mysterious figures pass a number of odd characters and witness a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion set precariously on a bluff, in a ...
5
It Happened on the Santa Fe Trail
The men on the handcar knew they could outrun horses. They had done exactly
that a few months earlier. A group of horsemen appeared and the section gang
jumped on the handcar. The track went around a curve. The horsemen took a ...
Taken from a Flying Boat, Shows How an See While Flying native secured a
handcar, painted it, installed a (J-hp. gasoline motor, and then arranged with the
railroad company for permission to operate over the tracks. This unique track ...
The aircraft-type steering wheel turns both the rudder and the rear wheel to guide
the craft as it "hovers" over driveway and sidewalk. Last, But Not Least- The Back-
Yard Handcar Back-yard railroading — handcar style — has come into its own ...
8
Henry’s Attic: Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His ...
In 1877 George Sheffield of Centreville, Michigan, built a three-wheeled railroad
handcar, which he called a "velocipede." He used the handcar to commute along
the tracks of the Michigan Central Railroad to his job in Three Rivers, six miles ...
Changing a Boy's Handcar into a Mechanically Propelled Sled THE ordinary
handcar sold at almost any toy store, or the car operated by foot pedals, is not of
much use when I ft. of snow covers the ground, and it is usually If the front wheels
...
All the thrills of real railroading are provided by this diminutive handcar which has
side rods on its drive wheels and which runs on a steel track. An ordinary vacuum
cleaner, with distributor and hose lengths attached, is used as a blowtorch in ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HANDCAR»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
handcar is used in the context of the following news items.
Wilkeson's Saturday features parade, races
Wilkeson's Booster Club will celebrate its 40th year of handcar races on Saturday, July 18, with a full day of festivities. The public is invited to ... «Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald, Jul 15»
Around Town: July 10, 2015
Forestry Heritage Society will offer train and handcar rides from 12:30 to 2:30 pm on Sundays at Powell River Farmers' Market, 4365 McLeod ... «Powell River Peak, Jul 15»
Trolleyfest set for July 18 at Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum
Jessica Mulcahy and Polly Bartlett pump a handcar at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum last year. The handcar is a popular hands-on ... «The Recorder, Jul 15»
Around Town: July 3, 2015
Forestry Heritage Society will offer train and handcar rides from 12:30 to 2:30 pm on Sundays at the Powell River Farmers' Market, 4365 ... «Powell River Peak, Jul 15»
Kings Island's trains offer ride through history
For more nearly 90 miles, the General's determined conductor and crew raced after the train thieves by handcar in what became known as the ... «Cincinnati.com, Jul 15»
Local Solicitors Join National Direct Action Over Legal Aid Cuts
The justice system is now best imagined as Buster Keaton desperately pumping a handcar, with rusty wheels, brakes applied, uphill on buckled ... «Wrexham.com, Jul 15»
Longtime volunteers remember early beginnings of...
Mulkerns first got involved in the museum about 28 years ago by volunteering to help with handcar races. “That led to us creating the Wickham ... «www.insideottawavalley.com/, Jun 15»
Around Town: June 26, 2015
Forestry Heritage Society will offer train and handcar rides from 12:30 to 2:30 pm on Sundays at the Powell River Farmers' Market, 4365 ... «Powell River Peak, Jun 15»
Saline Historical Society, American Legion to host July 4 celebration
Visitors can top off their day with a horse-drawn carriage ride or a ride on the museum's velocipede, a three-wheeled railroad handcar. «Heritage Newspapers, Jun 15»
Faithful history: Somonauk church celebrates sesquicentennial
Niederkorn also traveled to Leland for Masses using a railroad handcar. The original church building was destroyed by a fire in May 1868. «Valley Free Press, Jun 15»
