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A Corporation Dust Cart turned the corner.

After the Lord Mayor's Show came the dust cart and the ignominy of defeat at the first hurdle next year.

A great positive impact on the environmental situation could also be achieved by installing five dustbins which were frequently emptied by a dust cart.

Thought it was downright rude of him to refer to Bopara as a 'dust cart'.

Horse-drawn Corporation open-sided dust carts and perhaps a dozen men were brought into action and, after disposal of the worst of the refuse, the surface was well hosed.

Over time, waste collection vehicles gradually increased in size from the hand pushed tip cart or English dust cart, a name by which these vehicles are still referred, to large compactor trucks.

The horse, of a very restive character and hard in the mouth, whilst crossing over the Albert Bridge, shied and threw Mr Jennings and his son against a dust cart.

In their submissions, the designers wrote "inevitably they will be crowded thoroughfares, having nothing in common with the park proper," serving "coal carts and butcher's carts, dust carts and dung carts."

When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could.

The real tragedy began, as the Commissioner pointed out, on 21 December, when the municipal dust carts stopped their rounds because the tips were full to overflowing and there are no incinerators; there are impending health risks, and absolutely nobody, Commissioner, is talking about separate collection.

Whether by purchasing clean and economical official cars, refuse lorries, electronic equipment or investing in energy-efficient buildings, governments are ideally placed to address this problem.

Moments after the body strikes the pavement, one careful viewer noted, a refuse lorry can be seen pulling alongside - allowing the detective to swap places with a body.

As mayor, he launched a campaign to clean up Athens, and was often to be seen - much to the irritation of the government - riding refuse lorries through the city in the early morning.

Residents are so alarmed by the development that a growing number of them are paying private waste firms to collect their rubbish during the weeks when the council refuse lorries do not come.

Magnan has told me that we've been studiedly and repeatedly insulted, since the moment of our arrival; kept waiting in baggage rooms, transported in refuse lorries, herded about with servants, offered swill at the table.

The sun was shining and she breathed in the chilly air with pleasure; even if it were tainted with petrol fumes from the passing buses and the whiff from a refuse lorry, it was pleasant after a night spent in the closed ward.

On 10 August 1984 loyalist prisoner Benjamin Redfern, a member of the Ulster Defence Association, attempted to escape from HM Prison Maze by hiding in the back of a refuse lorry, but died after being caught in the crushing mechanism.

As they continued on their way, the two came upon a garbage truck.

Or he could sit here and wait for the garbage truck to move.

But what if the garbage truck arrived during the few minutes I was away?

The body was later found crushed in a garbage truck.

No one would criticize the person for taking a job on a garbage truck, he said.

He put his ear to it, and could hear the sound of a garbage truck out side.

Unfortunately the garbage truck had been by the previous day.

This here's the first time she exploded a garbage truck.

"Let me make a point on the garbage trucks," he said.

Every time the garbage truck stopped, a line of cars formed.

It is also played on certain garbage trucks in Taiwan.

One of the few people with a job, he was driving the settlement's only garbage truck.

When he left the palace complex, it was in a garbage truck.

One popular example is the front fork garbage truck scale.

By the bye, my friend, the garbage truck broke down.

"It sounded like a trash can going off a garbage truck at 2 in the morning."

"I'd like to ride on back of the garbage truck," her daughter said.

The new 19-acre hall filled with garbage trucks this week is actually empty much of the time.

Garbage trucks and car alarms had nothing on these birds.

Montclair has 18 garbage trucks, with 12 to 14 in use each day.

I love books, even bad ones, and hate the thought of their being fed into a garbage truck.

Having garbage trucks outside is not the right commercial environment."

From his room he heard a garbage truck making its way down the alley, taking away another week's debris.

They had to take them out on garbage trucks.

You don't know if there are garbage trucks at night or a bar down the street.