Back Issues: Electric vehicles: A good idea never goes out of fashion
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Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Electric vehicles were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries before they were replaced by more flexible petrol powered machines. The Rongotea Co-op Dairy Company used Chicago built Walker electric trucks from 1917 to 1935. The council also used and promoted electrically powered vehicles from the 1920s to the mid 1930s.
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- Born digital
- Relation
- Manawatū Standard
- Date
- December 17, 2022
- Digitisation id
- 2023Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_041071
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- Born Digital
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- IMCA Digital Archive
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- Simon Johnson
- Place
- Manawatū
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