[Ads-l] Slight antedating of "hand car"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED: Oct., 1833

1833 _Charleston [S.C.] Courier_ (May 7)  2 [GenealogyBank]: "HAMBURG, May
5. -- The hand car which the Rail Road Company sent up to this place in
order to gratify the curiosity of the community with a foretaste of the
delights of this novel form of conveyance, arrived a few days since.

JL

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