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Tom Swift and his Motor Cycle

Howard Roger Garis, Victor Appleton · 1910 · Novel

Synopsis

The book opens with Tom on an errand for his father. He is on a bicycle, and is nearly run down by one Andy Foger, a red-haired squinty-eyed bully, who is trying to get his new automobile to go as fast as possible. Andy ends up in a ditch, and blames Tom. (This may be the first documented case of "road-rage.") Later on that same trip, Tom encounters one Wakefield Damon, who crashes his new motor-cycle against a tree near Tom's house and is injured.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionMotorcyclesAdventure and adventurersClassic LiteratureChildren's fictionScience fictionSwift, tom (fictitious character), fictionAdventure and adventurers, fictionMotorcycles, fictionneeds-review

openlibrary_id: OL1513720W

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