Citations:gully eductor

English citations of gully eductor

Noun: (dated, Australia) a gully emptier, similar to a vacuum truck

• 1951 June 2, “Streets Of Perth Cleaner At £7,500 Lower Cost”, in The West Australian‎^[1], Perth, page 4:

  The new machines include a sweeper and refuse collector, a flusher that washes roads and gutters with a stream of water emitted under pressure from a spray, and a "gully eductor" that extracts dirt and refuse that has collected in storm water drains.

• 1954 August 23, “Council to consider £39.250 order for new plant”, in The Courier-Mail‎^[2], Brisbane:

  Last Tuesday the council approved contracts for the purchase of 39 motor vehicles for £41,083: a mechanical asphalt spreader for laying roads, £7805, a water channelling gully eductor, £3994, and three mechanical excavators, £18.900.

• 1975, Australia. Parliament, Parliamentary Papers‎^[3], Australian Government Pub. Serivce:

  no change in the General rates of duty applying to street sweepers, airport runway sweepers, street flushers and gully eductors; and that there be no changes in the existing duties on bodies for such vehicles ...

• 1982, The New South Wales Industrial Gazette‎^[4], Department of Industrial Relations and Technology., page 1170:

  ... engaged as a driver and/or operator of a tractor bulldozer, motor flusher, mechanical street sweeper or pick-up broom gully eductor or like equipment used in connection with the collection and/or disposal of refuse.

• 2005, Dean Osman Cameron, US6890439B2 – Biolytic filtration‎^[5], U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:

  This task would have to be performed by bulk handling equipment such as a gully eductor or manually with shovels and bags or the like.

See also

• Street Cleaning Vehicles (photograph, 1963), Brisbane City Council, archived by Trove
• Gully Eductor Unit (photograph, 1963), Brisbane City Council, archived by Trove