On Sep 16, 4:01*am, Chuck > wrote:
> On 9/15/2010 11:18 PM, Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
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> >> On 8/30/2010 7:42 AM, sara wrote:
> >>> Advantages of an Electric Car
> >>>http://www.greenautomotive.co.cc/201...ctric-car.html
> >> Long ago and far away (before WWII) my father and his friends often
> >> rode to high school in an old electric car. One of his classmates
> >> family business was making car and industrial batteries, and
> >> naturally, he had one of the old electric cars that was handed down.
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> > Chuck, do you have any old pictures of it? That would be cool to see the
> > style of the time!
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> I had seen a poor picture of it in the early 50's, when I was still in
> elementary school. It looked much like many early cars, with a high
> rectangular top, flat glass on the front, with a hinged section, and a
> sloped front. The steering was with a handle instead of a wheel.

A tiller, I think they called them.