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† railodok Obs.|ˈreɪlədɒk|
Also -doc, -dock, R-.
The name given to an observation car, running on rails and conveying visitors round the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. Also attrib.
1924Glasgow Herald 31 May 8 (heading) Railodok Tour of the Exhibition. Ibid., Her Majesty..toured the Exhibition in a railodok car. 1924Times 29 July (Brit. Empire Suppl.) p. xxi/6 The Railodok cars..travel from point to point and make circular tours. Ibid., It is possible for goods to be taken right up to the stalls..inside the bigger halls by Railodok trolley. 1924British Weekly 21 Aug. 446/3, I made the complete tour in the railodoc. 1925Ibid. 9 July 331/3 Boats on the lake were well patronised, and the railodok cars were partly full. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 16 The terms for the various vehicles to take visitors round like the railodocks are probably doomed to extinction. |