repair gang

The repair gang had arrived, but the crawler wasn't ready yet.

By the time we're ready for the caravans, we should have all the road repair gangs in place."

The cause of the explosion was thought to be a spark from tools used by a repair gang working near the cargo tanks.

It was pocked and upthrust as though a decade of cars had gone over it without the most minor attention by repair gangs.

Paul Suter: A repair gang leader on the London Underground.

In half a dozen places the overhead wires of the trams were down and trailing in the road: he saw several repair gangs working upon those.

This road had been neglected by the DDR government, and now that the Federal Republic was fully in place, the highway was little more than a linear repair gang.

I signaled the eight remaining hands of what had been the rear guard to follow me, hoping that by the time we arrived on deck we would find a repair gang at work.

At the end of the Second World War, Strobl's house in Vienna was looted by the Red Army and he was forced to work on a road repair gang.

Rosie left the mast repair gang to supervise the loading 209 2IO BRIAN JACQUES of the King, together with ten jugs of seaweed grog, onto the framed hammock.

Starting on 26 August, the destroyer began two months of almost nightly shore bombardment missions against time sensitive targets, firing illumination and high explosive rounds against enemy truck and oxcart convoys, troop concentrations and railroad repair gangs.

The provision of these conditions will encourage the buildup of soil life, particularly burrowing earthworms, and it is this active soil population which serves as the 'repair gang' to build an increasingly stable structure and to repair damage as it occurs.

Mary Lou Baker and I turned over a huge tub of that stuff, and we made little tar babies, and put black beds in black houses, and the man in charge of the street repair gang came along and bawled us out."