Re: Hand-worked track trolleys

["canetram59" <canetram59@hotmail.com>]

"Pumper Trolley" or "Hand Pumper" are the terms I have heard used in
Queensland for the 4 wheel hand worked vehicle. Normally worked by at least
2, preferably 4 men.
"Trike" is the 3-wheeled single man operator machine.
"Flat Top" is the term used for the flat 4-wheel tool car - push type.
"Quad" is the motorised 4-wheel trolley.
Regards
David Mewes
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> > "B." <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au> wrote in message
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> > | > Extracted from posts to a South African newsgroup,
> > | > responding to requests for nomenclature (for a local
> > | > dictionary).  What names applied in Australia and New
> > | > Zealand?
> > | >
> > | > What's a handcar in SAThis will go into the dictionary);
> > | > English and Afrikaans please.
> > | > Handcar is a light railway vehicle propelled by cranks or
> > | > levers, used by workers inspecting the track It is marked
> > | > as being the North American term for this vehicle.  It
> > | > sounded foreign to me (handcar).  What would we would call
> > | > it here?
> > | >
> > | > The agreement was: Gandy Dancer (USA) referred to the track
> > | > workers, not to the trolley.
> > | > Gandy Manufacturing company made tools for use on
> > | > railroads, especially track tools.  The track gang men who
> > | > used them were referred to as "Gandy Dancers" for obvious
> > | > reasons.
> > |
> > | > Pump Trolley / Pomptrollie were the correct terms as
> > | > applied to railways in South Africa.
> > |
> > | > "Ganger's Trolley" was a flat trolley without the pump
> > | > handles but with a screw-brake device which gangers used in
> > | > addition to the pump trolley.
> > | > Tese flat trolleys were far more common than the pump
> > | > trolley.  They were propelled by pushing them!
> > | There was a design of a 4 wheel flat top trolley where a rod is
> > | connected to the wheel similar to a steam loco, but this rod goes
> > | up vertically, and is operated while standing on the flat top.
> > | Refer pages 9 & 15 of "Railway to Walhalla - Pictorial History"
> > | published by Walhalla Railway Museum, Erica.
> > |
> > | There was also a design of 3 wheeled 'tricycle' trolley where you
> > | sat on a seat and operated a hand pump as you described above, but
> > | it appears only one person operated the pump.  I have seen this on
> > | both 5'3" and 2'6".
> > |
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