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When, however, that submarine torpedoes and sinks a vessel containing two million pounds 'worth of absolutely essential material, such as locomotives or motor-lorries, the connection becomes less, as the date of an offensive becomes more, remote.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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We wanted sleepers, rails, and locomotives for the railway; pipes, pumps, and other materials for the water-supply; waggons, motor-lorries and light-cars for transport purposes; sand-carts, cacolets, and ambulances for the R.A.M.C.; and, with the exception of most kinds of vegetables, food.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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Our men found room for some of the aged civilians in motor-lorries and
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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There are more big motor-lorries here than I've seen anywhere.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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In this area alone, eighty-seven guns of various calibres, and fully a thousand horse and oxen-drawn vehicles, nearly a hundred motor-lorries, cars, field-kitchens, water carts, and a mass of other impedimenta blocked the road, with the carcases of thousands of animals and the bodies of dead
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On the outskirts of the village we saw signs of the Hun evacuation: deserted huts and stables, a couple of abandoned motor-lorries.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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Accra as head-loads, or in barrels, or in motor-lorries.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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The Maharaja Scindia's munificent Christmas gift for the soldiers and sailors consists of 41 ambulance-cars, 4 cars for officers, 5 motor-lorries and repair-wagons, and 10 motor-cycles.
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Sir Henry Robinson, Vice-President of the Local Government Board, and with the help of the military authorities, who lent motor-lorries and money, food was distributed to over one hundred thousand persons.
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Germans, Turks and Circassians, was rushed down from Damascus in motor-lorries, in order to deny the crossing at Jisr Benat Yakub.
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