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  • However, by the middle of next year, it would have its own dedicated site for gear-box assembly and testing.

    Bharat Forge in Joint Venture With David Brown Group Deals India Staff 2011

  • Of course, no one on my shift was Advanced, so like the pandas it was wasted, and may as well have been a plastic Astra, with wing mirror covers missing and lumpy gear-box! on December 19, 2009 at 4: 37 pm Jabba

    Chocolate Fireguards (Cars and Email) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • I tightened the cap on the bottle and left it next to the gear-box.

    THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

  • Alternatively, store parts like the engine, gear-box, doors and bonnet in a dry basement or shed while you are working on the chassis and body.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Alternatively, store parts like the engine, gear-box, doors and bonnet in a dry basement or shed while you are working on the chassis and body.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Alternatively, store parts like the engine, gear-box, doors and bonnet in a dry basement or shed while you are working on the chassis and body.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • "In spite of confession being supposed to be good for the soul, I don't like to admit that we've put gravel in the gear-box -- do you, Belle?"

    The Galaxy Primes 1927

  • All right, Doc, I'm kind of confused just now, but I reckon I can still put a plug back in a gear-box.

    The Man from Home Booth Tarkington 1907

  • And don't you forget what I've been telling you -- you get the sand out of that gear-box first thing tomorrow morning, or I'll see that you draw your last pay Saturday night.

    The Man from Home Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Your machine's like a good many people -- got sand in its gear-box.

    The Man from Home Booth Tarkington 1907

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