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Myers}, Topology 27, No. 1, 27-35 (1988; Zbl 0658.57007)]. In fact, he showed that genus-one Whitehead manifolds (irreducible, contractible open manifolds which are monotone unions of solid tori, but are not homeomorphic to \\({\\mathbb R}^3\\)) cannot admit any nontrivial, torsion free groups of covering translations. The class of such examples was enlarged by \\textit{D. G. Wright} [ibid. 31, No. 2, 281-291 (1992; Zbl 0755.57009)], and by \\textit{F. C. Tinsley} and \\textit{D. G. Wright} [Topology Appl. 77, No. 3, 291-301 (1997; Zbl 0879.57001)]. In this paper, the author gives a more delicate kind of example, obtaining specific contractible open 3-manifolds which do admit infinite groups of covering transformations, but which cannot cover any compact 3-manifold.    The examples are constructed by gluing together contractible 3-manifolds with 2-plane boundaries in a certain way, so that in the mapping class group of the resulting manifold \\(W\\), every nontrivial torsion-free subgroup has a subgroup of finite index which either has infinite abelianization or has a nontrival normal abelian subgroup. This uses some previous work of the author on mapping class groups of Whitehead manifolds. If \\(G\\) is a group of covering transformations on \\(W\\), a theorem of \\textit{R. Geoghegan} and \\textit{M. L. Mihalik} [Topology 35, No. 3, 655-669 (1996; Zbl 0860.57002)] implies that there must be an isomorphic image of \\(G\\) in the mapping class group of \\(W\\). 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