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LORD MAYOR DRIVES TRAIN. (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, May 31. Alderman €. W. Beardlev, once an engine-driver and now Lord Mayor of Sheffield, who is visiting Paris and the battlefields with a number of English Mayors, returned to the footplate at Gare du Nord. He started from the station the Paris-Liege express, and drove it a short distance till he encountered a signal against him. A large number of officials and friends assembled at tbe station to see the Yorkshire Lord Mayor manipulate one of the largest locomotives in France. Alderman Beardlev, during the war, drove locomotives in the battlefield area.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 196, 2 June 1930, Page 5
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