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| | Saturday Evening Post, 1960.03.12, Are Electric Cars Coming Back? |
 | | Some of the vintage electric trucks which are still in use were built before World War I. In fact, the durability of the old-timers is one reason why enthusiasts predict a comeback. |
 | | The year 1930 saw the end of manufacture of the ladies' electrics of Jack Paar's memories - decorously silent, glittering with plate glass, costing thousands in a day when dollars were way uptown, they were finally smothered when emergence of the self-starter made gas cars practical for women drivers. |
 | | Atlantic City Electric's program has also included a study of electric trucks in England, where close to 30,000 of them are making many-stop deliveries of milk, bakery goods, laundry, sacked coal, and so on. |
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