equipped on its underside with a hopper, used to charge coke
ovens from above. It is thought to be a corruption of the British
word lorry, which means truck.
The cars are a standard design with a hopper mounted above
an open framework and a chute on one or both sides to load
the coal into the beehive. The cars are small. Powered cars are
approximately 12’6” long and 8’6” wide. Non-powered cars are
8’6” long and 8’6” wide. Both cars ride on two axles, some with
journal boxes, some without.
The chutes are manually operated with a control wheel located
on either end of the car to lower and raise the chutes by
chains. Drawings of a two-chute powered car, built by H.C. Frick
for use at Scottsdale, PA, are in
Model Railroader,
June, 1981.
The author states that these cars were used to transport coke
