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The usual arrangement is that reasonably-intact vehicles are kept as
a parts source for some period of time, then whatever is left is
eventually sold to another facility that handles recycling of bulk
scrap metal. Badly damaged vehicles may go immediately to the
latter facility. Back in the 1980s, I worked as a security guard at
a facility that handled the bulk-metal-recycling step. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/22/2016 09:53 AM, Mike Thompson
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<div dir="ltr">In the parts of the US where I have lived (Midwest,
West) these would be called "Auto Salvage" if they mainly dealt
with vehicles, although "junkyard" is used colloquially.
However, to be consistent, we should use the British English
term to be consistent.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Philip
Barnes <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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class="">On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 12:22 -0500, EthnicFood
IsGreat wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> I thought scrapyards and junkyards were two different
entities. This<br>
> is how I think of them.<br>
><br>
> Scrapyards are places whose primary purpose is to buy
items that are<br>
> no longer wanted (typically metal objects) and then
sell them for the<br>
> value of their raw materials. Junkyards are places
whose primary<br>
> purpose is to sell intact vehicle parts from wrecks
to people who are<br>
> repairing a vehicle. Definitely not the same thing.<br>
><br>
</span>As a native speaker I see the two as the same thing,
scrapyard being<br>
British English, junkyard American English.<br>
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Phil (trigpoint)<br>
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