All the electric runabouts I ever saw, while they were very nice cars, didn't seem able to go so very fast, or very far."
"Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout or, The Speediest Car on the Road"
Victor Appleton
Bids were also asked on 1000 five-passenger automobiles, 1000 runabouts, 1000 automobiles, in price ranging from $1500 to $2000, several hundred motortrucks of half, three-quarter and one ton capacity and 5000 motorcycles, and the same number of motorcycles with auxiliary passenger capacity, or side cars.
"Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights"
Kelly Miller
Two runabouts came up at a gallop, neck and neck, four boys in each, the Tennessee Shad standing at the reins in one, Dennis de Brian de Boru Finnegan in the other, each firmly clutched about the waist by the boy on whose knees he jolted and jostled.
"The Varmint"
Owen Johnson F. R. Gruger