Off went lorries and wagons at top speed until they reached a bridge over a railway.
For the purpose of bringing up supplies, large numbers of motor lorries and horsed wagons are used.
Near a village close to St. Quentin the colonel in charge of the British lorries and wagons learned that Uhlans were only a mile away.
The wagons and lorrieswere drawn up in the village street in the form of a laager, and the wearied men took cover behind them, and prepared to make a stubborn resistance.
Then the bridge was blown up, and almost before the roar of the explosion had ended the two remaining lorries were in the hands of the Germans.
They kept up the chase for some minutes; then, there being no sign of rallying, they darted back to the causeway, where the traction engines and lorries now stood deserted.
Climbing into the lorries they pushed these parcels into the breech end of the bore of the guns.
The remains of one gun lay scattered on the field; those of the other were indistinguishably mixed up with earth, stones, and the debris of the lorries on the causeway.
Finding the wheels of the lorries intact, he managed to start one of the motors.
Five motor lorriesconveying ammunition had been cut off by the Germans.
He then hitched the other four lorries behind, and slowly brought the convoy safely into the British camp.
As we did so a line of motor lorries and soldiers came down from the other direction.
Very often they camouflage roads with evergreen trees so as to hide the view of the motor lorries and camions which are so essential in taking supplies and ammunition up to the front.
When stores of supplies are found in good condition, of course they are used at once, if possible, but much of the material must be sent back in motor lorries to be sorted and remade.
No motor-lorries were sent to meet them and bring them down, but they had to tramp back, exhausted and dazed.
There was a vast traffic of lorries on the roads, and trains were traveling on light railways day and night to railroads just beyond shell-range.
Whitehall, the sacred portals of the War Office, the holy ground of the Horse Guards' Parade, were invaded by bodies of men who had commandeered ambulances and lorries and had made long journeys from their depots.
From many little villages caught by the oncoming tide of war our soldiers helped the people to escape in lorries or on gun-wagons.
Flemish cart-horses with huge fringes of knotted string wended their way between motor-lorries and gun-limbers.
Once arrived at the unloading points, parties had to be provided for unloading the lorries and for conveying the cylinders up to the front line trench.
To carry this number of cylinders more than fifty lorrieswould be required or, say, perhaps, go G.
Enormous repair-lorries were each a perambulating garage fully equipped with machinery for repairing broken parts or making new ones.
So his men began to pile up the cases, the lorries started to move the sacks of oats, and the day's work was pretty well advanced when Colonel Musgrave appeared.
The next morning Barefoot with his men and lorries paraded once more on the wharf, with a sea-wind sweeping an icy rain into their faces.
Then came motor-lorries to take the whole Division to the North, and through all the bustle and disorder they were conscious of a giant hand trying with prudent and skilful movements to rebuild the line.
When he saw the men standing motionless, the officer saluting and the lorries all in a row, his face went as red as a brick, and he stood up in his car and addressed them angrily: "So you are incapable of the slightest initiative!
On Friday morning at seven, Barefoot, his labourers and the lorries were all paraded on the wharf in excellent order.
The lorries were to take away again everything they had just brought up.
The Brigadier then appeared on the scene, and seized upon lorries like a gentleman hailing taxis in London, with the result that all our baggage went with us, though it is to be feared that the 2/7th K.
The raiding party were brought up in lorries to the Houplines Level Crossing after dark, each man with his face blackened and his label, bearing number and name, tied to the top button of his jacket.
He found that the shell had fallen just beside one of the loaded lorries which waited their turn to pull in to the dump, splitting and splintering it to pieces, lifting and hurling it almost clear of the road.
The lorries began to arrive just after sunset, rumbling up the main road and swinging off in batches as there was room for them in the curved crescent of track that ran through the dump and back to the main road.
Come over and get your tea before the lorries come in, if you’ve time,” said the Colonel, and moved off.
The officer was running back to the dump when he heard the officer there bellowing for another six lorries to pull in.
Passing cars and lorries sprayed the hedges with a thin mud-emulsion formed from the road binder, and exposed the sharp flints which, like so much broken glass, tore to pieces the tires of the motors.
Motor transport lorries also drove at full speed to get by this danger point as quickly as possible.
A few weeks before our arrival French anti-air-craft guns and search-lights mounted on motor lorries had pursued and brought down a Zeppelin and the Huns had probably decided that the game was not worth the candle.
Each night the motor lorries returned loaded with men under arrest, and each day an equally large number left the camp to undergo the same experience.
Quite unexpectedly round a turn in the road we came on a great line of Canadian transports--American-built lorries with khaki canvas tops.
Great lorries and transports went out from the French coast towns and disappeared beyond the horizon; motor ambulances and hospital trains came in with the grim harvest.
In the square, almost deserted, a number of staff cars had gathered, and lorries lumbered through.
It was invariably a case of throwing out the clutch and waiting for a favourable moment to dash past, often with a bare yard between the off-side wheel of the powerful lorries and the deep ditch by the side of the road.
The rattling of the huge motor-lorries prevented the chauffeurs from hearing any sounds beyond the pulsations of their engines.
In the brewery yard were nearly two hundred motor-cars and lorries arranged in various grades of efficiency; while in the cellars were rows and rows of motor-cycles and ordinary bicycles in all sorts of conditions.
We were now a long way from the front line, but by jumping lorries I was still able to go forward and visit the slums.
I refused many kind offers of lifts on lorriesand waggons.
Between us and the village was a slight dip in the ground, and with glasses we could see lorries full of fresh German troops, amid clouds of dust, making their way to a point in the village.
I went over to the officers' club and had a good wash and luncheon, and there meeting a very nice engineer officer, I asked him if he could tell me where I could find any lorries going North.
When, however, he had seen me on various occasions picked up by stray motor cars and lorries and get to our destination before he did, he began to think there was more in the text than he had imagined.
I used to go off across the meadow lands, now bright and fresh with spring verdure, till I got to the St. Eloi road, and then by jumping lorrieswould make my way to St. Nicholas and on to Cam Valley.
The roads as usual were crowded, and the dust from passing lorries was very unpleasant.
There was a great concentration of men in this area, and the roads were crowded with lorries and limbers as well as troops.
I hear the rattle of lorries and motorcycles and the tramp of horses on the cobblestones.
The dust as we threaded our way through the streams of lorries almost choked us, but we could cover the ground in a short space of time which was a great thing.
A stream of lorries at the side of the Grande Place and the noisy motor cycles of despatch riders made an accompaniment to the address which rendered both speaking and hearing difficult.
The next morning I left for Bethune, and thence by the assistance of lorries and a car continued my journey to our new Divisional Headquarters, which had found a home at Château de la Haie.
He pointed at the screen; big dump-lorries were already coming in the doors under the pickup, with a mob of gowned civil-service people crowding in under them.
Erskyll, after his brief moment of decisiveness, was staring at the screen to the Convocation Chamber, where bodies were still being heaved into the lorries like black sacks of grain.
The sidings were full of trucks, and a procession of some twenty lorries moved slowly up the road to Bouzincourt.
Black trails of smoke stretched away from the chimneys; and surely, as we approached a minute ago, a short column of lorries was passing along a road towards the factory.
The transport lorries are all British, some of them still branded with the names of well-known London firms.
The lorries made towards Amiens, and it appeared that the battered relics of the Brigade were being withdrawn.
Its protesting inmates had been removed in lorries at the time of the German capture of Merville, and the long galleries and rooms thereafter became filled with troops.
But we've got the lorries eating their heads off in the garages and the petrol is simply aching to be evaporated, so we give the drivers exercise and ourselves some excitement over organising these Area Circuit Steeplechases.
The hundred lorries was shipped over, an' I saw 'em safe through the specified tests an' handed 'em over.
If there is no room on the lorries for any article of vertu, it goes on the tank.
This paragraph was written in the comfortable days before the lorries disappeared into battalion or brigade "pools.
Streams of lorries were bringing up ammunition, petrol, rations; and whole brigades of infantry, marching across the open country, had disappeared by dawn into the woods.
The enemy had begun to shell the railhead at Bapaume with a long-range gun, and our particular lorries with rations on board had been blown into matchboard and scraps of metal.
Again, if we moved a short way, the lorries could easily make a second journey.
Early on the 1st our convoy of lorries took the road.
Further, these loads were carried forward eight to nine miles in all, and at least sixteen lorries were therefore set free.
Two men were detailed to guard our dump outside Noreuil, the rescued tank started for Mory, and the remaining officers and men marched wearily to Vaulx-Vraucourt, where lorries and a car were awaiting them.
The lorries had already started for our next halting-place.
Lorries bumped through the mist with food and kit.
Lorries and limbered waggons can carry up supplies after the battle.
Lorries were none too plentiful, and I had collected a great quantity of stores in case I should find myself out of touch with the sources of supply.
I imagined that extralorries were obtained, and everything possible loaded upon them.
The limbers which feed them, the lorries which feed the limbers from the train, must go forward and backward.
Parties on railway work, lorries on the Wytschaete Road, suffered very heavily also.
The strain upon the mechanism of the lorries was tremendous, and they were constantly breaking down.
Most of the lorries allotted to formations were, however, "snowed up," and did not arrive for two or three days.
Let not the innocent, however, imagine that uses were not found for the lorries thus set at liberty!
Foden lorries carrying stone and light steam rollers to lay it were enabled, beneath this shelter, to work at a proximity to the Germans that had otherwise been out of the question.
Thence the party went by train to Amiens, being met again by the lorriesat Achiet in the evening.
Lorries and ambulances had already taken the worst cases, but at this stage there was not transport enough for all.
The motorlorries are borne on whirling circles of water around the wheels, with spirting tumultuous spokes.
Farther away, on waste ground and vacant sites in the environs of the labyrinth of platforms and buildings, military carts and lorries were standing idle, and rows of horses, drawn out farther than one could see.
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