MOTOR CAR BURNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 157, 4 July 1921, Page 2

MOTOR CAR BURNED.

MISHAP IX MT. ALBERT ROAD.

A Krit motor car was entirely demolished by fire in Mount Albert' Road on •Saturday evening, shortly before seven o'clock.

The car, which was numbered 2110 A, is believed to have been borrowedWhile the driver with two passengers was passing along between Mount Roskill and Mount Albert on the main road on Saturday, the motor evidently developed engine trouble, which brought the vehicle to a standstill midway "between the junction of Mount Albert Road with Edendale and Dominion Roads. It was then too dark to see clearly and the" driver apparently lit a match to aid him in locating the seat of the trouble. The result was that the engine caught fire, but the. outbreak wat; not by any means of a spontaneous nature, such »s is usually the case when a naked light is brought near the engine. On the contrary the flames burned smoothly and quietly for a considerable time and did not spread beyond the place of their origin for about a quarter of an hour or more. The owner of the house near by says that he saw the flames break -nut and immediately he brought two buckets of water 'with which to quench the outbreak, but the men were disinclined to pour it upon tlie (lames, as they thought it would scatter the oil.

Consequently the firo continued, to burn, and it eventually spread to the body of the car. and steadily increased in vigour. After this it burned for fully half an hour, and nothing but the skeleton of the. car and the engine was left.

During yesterday a number of motorists and passers-by stopped to examine the wreck as they journeyed along the Mount Albert Road.