steam lorry

noun

noun

Historical Synonym of steam wagon.

An old locomotive and six obsolete coaches were bought from the then Southern Railway, re-lettered "United Coast Lines," and wrecked by being drawn into a steam lorry loaded with cement at Spains Crossing, near Herriard, on the now-abandoned Basingstoke-Alton line.1958 February 23, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

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