| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages). |
| Series |
Tom Swift Novels |
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Tom Swift Novels.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 25, 2010). |
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Originally published in 1922. |
| Summary |
Richard Bartholomew, president of the Hendrickton and Pas Alos Railroad Company (H and PA) is under pressure to save his company from bankruptcy. If Mr. Bartholomew cannot come up with a means to compete with the Hendrickton and Western railroad, the H and PA will be doomed to failure. Mr. Bartholomew has contracted The Swift Construction Company to build a new electric locomotive which can travel at 2 miles per minute. The catch is that the owner of the competing H and W railway, Montagne Lewis, is dishonest and will stop at nothing to prevent Mr. Bartholomew from succeeding. Hired thugs are under orders to destroy Tom's developments. Tom, and his friends Ned Newton and Mr. Damon, have several life-threatening encounters with these hired gunmen. |
| Contents |
Title; Contents; Chapter I A Tempting Offer; Chapter II Trouble Starts; Chapter III Tom Swift's Friends; Chapter IV Much to Think About; Chapter V Barbed Wire Entanglements; Chapter VI The Contract Signed; Chapter VII The Man with Big Feet; Chapter VIII An Enemy in the Dark; Chapter IX Where was Koku?; Chapter X A Strange Conversation; Chapter XI Touch and Go; Chapter XII The Try-Out Day Arrives; Chapter XIII Hopes and Fears; Chapter XIV Speed; Chapter XV The Enemy Still Active; Chapter XVI Off for the West; Chapter XVII The Wreck of Forty-Eight; Chapter XVIII On the Hendrickton and amp; Pas Alos. |
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Chapter XIX Peril, The Mother of InventionChapter XX The Result; Chapter XXI The Open Switch; Chapter XXII A Desperate Chase; Chapter XXIII Mr. Damon at Bay; Chapter XXIV Putting the Enemy to Flight; Chapter XXV Speed and Success. |
| Subject |
Swift, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Electric railroads -- Juvenile fiction.
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Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
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Electric railroads -- Fiction.
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Adventure stories.
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Adventure and adventurers.
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Swift, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Swift, Tom (Fictitious character)
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Electric railroads. (OCoLC)fst00905771
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Swift, Tom (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01140316
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| Genre/Form |
Children's electronic books.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| Added Title |
Tom Swift and his electric locomotive |
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Two miles a minute on the rails |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Appleton, Victor. Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive : Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails. Auckland : The Floating Press, ©1922 |
| ISBN |
9781775413110 (electronic bk.) |
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177541311X (electronic bk.) |
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