I do not want to make this into a larger point, but gritters are often dual-purpose vehicles.
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It is a fact that there are very fewgrittertrailers or bulk gritters used by private interests.
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Forty-five trailer gritters were delivered during 1955 and this number has now been increased to fifty-six.
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The council said that the gritters had been out, and they had, spreading 1,220 tonnes of rock salt.
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Fifty-three lorries had been fitted withgritterbodies and all sixty have now been completed.
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Liverpool does not have those, but it did have gritters.
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Then the local authority attaches some kind ofgritterto the back of an ordinary vehicle which goes round the roads and makes them safe for the motorist.
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Indeed, thegritteris so commonly seen on winter service vehicles that the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
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It was also converted to agritterusing the grain chute, capable of blasting grit through the windows of nearby cars.
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