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Definition of Handcars
1. handcar [n] - See also: handcar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handcars
Literary usage of Handcars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leading Cases of the Court of Civil Appeals of the State of Tennessee: With by Jos C Higgins, Tennessee Court of Civil Appeals, Court of Civil Appeals, Tennessee (1915)
"Under rule 336, the section foremen are required to always accompany their
handcars, and are required to use the utmost care in running them over the road, ..."
2. Maintenance of Way Standards on American Railways: And Rules and by Frederick Augustus Smith (1906)
""Section foremen must not leave their handcars standing upon double or single
main track ... "When two or more handcars are running in the same direction, ..."
3. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1917)
"... use of handcars on railroad tracks is not supposed to stop or interfere with
... to keep handcars off when trains approach, and that without any special ..."
4. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1898)
"By means of these same capstans the handcars on which the material is ... The same
crane is also used for putting the plates on the small handcars for ..."
5. Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa by Edgar Watson Howe (1913)
"There is a double track, with branches to every important section of Mombasa.
Every citizen of importance owns one or more handcars, called "trolleys," and ..."
6. Practical Track Work by Kenneth L. Van Auken (1915)
"Most handcars are manufactured with the idea of making them light running, ...
handcars •Abstract from an article by Claude L. Van Auken, published in ..."
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