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Mr. Thurtle's trolley : a novel

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Description: "For thirty-two years Mr. Andrew Thurtle had been the crotchety bachelor conductor of Betsy, the bob-tailed red-and-yellow trolley car, and Mr. Frank Winch had been his faithful motorman. When the era of the bus finally drove Betsy out of business, the trolley company gave her to Mr. Thurtle and the Winches, Dora and Frank, as a memento of their long service. There she stayed at the side of their cottage until Mr. Thurtle made the discovery that he had a wonderful and curious power over the car. Mr. Thurtle and the Winches, who had always wanted to travel, decide to install a Diesel engine in Betsy, fit her out so they can live aboard her, and start across the country from New York to California. Sometimes they travel on trolley tracks doing a little business on the side, but mostly, with Mr. Thurtle's strange influence over the car, they sneak along the railroad tracks. In Kansas they stop to look up Nettie, who had been Mr. Thurtle's girl when he ran away many years ago, and who he hopes is still alive-and unmarried"--Jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1947]
Call number: 644147
Creator: Pratt, Theodore (1901-1969)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of the Estate of Donald Duke, 2015.
Dimensions: 21 cm
Associated people: Duke, Donald, (1929-2010,)
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