trammers

Updated: June 5, 2025

The two trammers used to start the car, hop on the brake behind and let it run of its own momentum down the incline to the edge of the bank where it would be checked for dumping. Sometimes we forgot to brake the car so that it would ricochet on in a flying leap off the end of the track, and so on over the dump.

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland