Platelayers shall carefully observe the General Regulations for the safe conduct of traffic comprised in Rules 1 to 12 inclusive.
They make good platelayers on railways, and having plenty of physical strength, will do any sort of rough work they are set to.
Not long ago the Zulus and the Kosa Kafirs employed as platelayers on the Cape Government Railway fought fiercely with each other.
The feeding of 2,000 platelayers in a barren desert was a problem in itself.
To direct and control the labours of these men of varied race and language, but of equal inexperience, some civilian foremen platelayers were obtained at high rates of pay from Lower Egypt.
The business was an annoying one; bricklayers employed on repairs on a tunnel there were already out, and now a demand came from platelayers on the same section.
At Imien-po a few minutes' stop was made while appliances for repairing the line were hastily brought on board and a number of skilled platelayers taken up.
One of the Companies consisted exclusively of platelayers and watchmen.
The principal tool used by platelayers for lifting the permanent way is a long iron-shod wooden lever, as shown in Fig.
The greater width would not only provide more clearance in case of breakdowns, but would afford increased safety to the platelayers and other workmen engaged on the line.
Small arched recesses or niches should be formed in the side walls at 176 convenient distances to serve as refuges forplatelayers or others working in the tunnels.
The outside footpaths for theplatelayers are carried on strong brackets, riveted to the main girders.
Recesses for the platelayers should be provided every ten or fifteen yards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "platelayers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
