shaft-car

Updated: May 10, 2025

The outlines of a rusty "hoist", with its cable leading down into a slanting hole in the rock, showed dimly before them, a massive, chunky, deserted thing in the shadows. About it were clustered drills that were eaten by age and the dampness of the seepage; farther on a "skip", or shaft-car, lay on its side, half buried in mud and muck from the walls of the tunnel.

Courtney Ryley Cooper - The Cross-Cut