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I tem III (ii) - D(9) which is referred to in the aforesaid Instruction No. 617 which relates to fork lift trucks, reads as under :

"Motor buses and motor lorries other than those used in a business of running them on hire."

In the year 1973, the entry D(9) read as under :

"Motor buses, motor lorries, motor taxis, motor tractors"

The origin of word 'lorry' is uncertain. 'Lorry' means, (i) "a large strong motor vehicle for transporting goods etc.", (ii) "a long flat low wagon, or, (iii) "a truck used on railways or tramways", as per the Concise Oxford Dictionary. As per Webster's II New River Side University Dictionary, the word 'lorry', in the meaning relevant to the present context, would mean, 'a motor truck'. As per the Encyclopedia Britannica, truck is "also called lorry". Thus, the expression "motor lorries" in Entry III E (1A) of Appendix 1 would mean "motor trucks".

"Truck" is introduced in following terms in the Encyclopedia Britannica :

"Truck also called lorry any motor vehicle designed to carry freight or goods or to perform special services such as fire fighting. The truck was derived from horse-driven wagon technology, and some of the pioneer manufacturers came from the wagon business.

Raja Construction Because of their speed and flexibility, trucks have come to carry a quarter of the intercity freight in the United States, and they enjoy an almost total monopoly in intracity freight delivery. In 1896 Gottlieb Daimler of Germany built the first motor truck. It was equipped with a four-horsepower engine and a belt drive with two speeds forward and one in reverse. In 1898 the Winton Company of the United States produced a gasoline-powered delivery wagon with a single-cylinder six-horsepower engine.

In World War I motor trucks were widely used, and in World War II they largely replaced horse-drawn equipment. A notable vehicle was the four-wheel-drive, quarter-ton-capacity, short-wheelbase jeep, capable of performing a variety of military tasks."

Lorry or truck would, therefore, mean not only any motor vehicle designed to carry freight or goods but also to perform special services like fire fighting. Fire engine also called fire truck is a self propelled mobile piece of equipment used in fire fighting. There can be other special services to be performed by motor vehicles designed for such services. Thus, a lorry i.e. truck adapted or designed to carry a crane is meant for special services of lifting load, moving it side by side, rotating it or moving it horizontally. Most industrial trucks permit mechanized pickup and deposit of the loads, eliminating manual work in lifting as well as transporting. The crane truck is a portable boom crane mounted on an industrial truck. It may be used with hooks, grabs, and slings for bundled or coiled material. Industrial trucks which would also come within the expression 'motor lorries' are described as follows in the Encyclopedia Britannica :

It will, thus, be clear that motor vehicles like fire trucks, fork lift trucks and crane trucks which are designed for special services fall within the category of 'motor trucks' (also called 'motor lorries').

The word 'crane' when used for an inanimate object means a machine for moving heavy objects usually by suspending them from a projecting arm or beam. Crane is any of a diverse group of machines that not only lift heavy objects but also shift them horizontally. Movable cranes are mounted on railway cars, motor trucks or chassis equipped with caterpillar treads and the hoisting machinery is mounted so as to counterpoise part of the load on the boom and thereby, preventing the entire crane from overturning while carrying the load. The fork lift truck, widely used for moving goods between warehouse storages and shipping vehicles, "is a highly manoeuvrable crane adaptable to handling drums, crates, Raja Construction or loaded skids or pallets." (See Encyclopedia Britannica under the heading `crane').