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MOTOR RAIL DUMPERS

DUMPERS

otor Rail were in the right place at the right time when they decided to produce a dumper design in 1936. They had major customers in the construction industry and preparations for a war with Germany was about to come to fruition, even if they may not have been fully aware of it at the time. Certainly when the first production units came along in 1938, re-armament was a reality. Also the decline of the use of temporary light railways for the movement of material was beginning

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