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wheel shops

wheel shops is the plural of wheel shop.

Meaning of wheel shop

Noun

wheel shop (plural wheel shops)

  1. A workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.
    • In the wheel shop a wheel-welding machine, the first of its kind on British Railways when it was installed in 1955, uses a "Lincoln" submerged arc welding head to build up the diameter of old wheel centres (from the 1880 to 1910 era).
    • [p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Wheel Shop: Preparation and assembly of wheel and axle sets.1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 159, 162

Questions about wheel shops

What is wheel shops the plural of?
Wheel shops is the plural of wheel shop.

Words near wheel shops in the dictionary

  1. wheel ploughs
  2. wheel press
  3. wheel presses
  4. wheel round
  5. wheel shop
  6. wheel shops
  7. wheel slide
  8. wheel spider
  9. wheel spiders
  10. wheel spinner
  11. wheel spinners

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