steam lorry

plural steam lorries

1. historicalSynonym of steam wagon.

   An old locomotive and six obsolete coaches were bought from the then Southern Railway, re-lettered "United Coast Lines," and wrecked by being drawn into a steam lorry loaded with cement at Spains Crossing, near Herriard, on the now-abandoned Basingstoke-Alton line.

   1958 February 28, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90

   Synonyms: steam wagon