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English: A means of getting home quickly. Apart from the few who lived in barracks at the quarry, most of the workers at this the highest and one of the remotest quarries in the Blaenau area lived in the town. To overcome the problems posed by the long and tedious climb to work, the company allowed the men to ride in the empty returning trucks which were winched back up the four pitches of the inclined plane in the morning. The quarry blacksmith then devised a simple mechanism consisting of a seat resting on a bar which would span the gap between the two sets of tramway lines on the inclines. This made it possible for the quarrymen to return back home in the evening at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour. These devices were called 'ceir gwyllt' (wild cars). The following links deal with these vehicles, and include a clip from the 1935 Welsh language blockbuster "Y Chwarelwr (the quarryman").
http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/blowup1/14604 http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/17/Car_Gwyllt.htm http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/filmclip/30400 565910 |
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| Author | Eric Jones |
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