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Granby car

Granby car

[′gran·bē ‚kär]
(mining engineering)
An automatically dumped car for hand loading or power-shovel loading; a wheel attached to its side engages an inclined track at the dumping point.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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