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