MOTORS COLLIDE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 15

MOTORS COLLIDE.

A Ford delivery van and a. motor-car collided at tho corner of Montreal street and Oxford terraoo. (the scene of several accidents during Tne year) on AVcdnesday evening. The van was nut out of. action by the impact, but the car did not appear to be badly damaged.

ANOTHER COLLISION. The above is one of the many collisions reported in those columns during the past twelve months. These collisions are certain to cost the car-owner ji considerable sum unless wo take tho risk under one of our comprehensive policies. The premium is moderate for a policy which insures the ear-owner against loss by collision, causing damage to his car. or claims for damage to persons or their property, and loss by fire. Ring np 2365, Northern Assurance Co., Ltd. (G. G. and J. H. Aitken and Co.), 91 Hereford street. 9

£ip;htv years ago. on October 33th, Queen Victoria opened the present 1-iondon Royal Exchange, -witH a pi 011 1? and circumstance staUxl by Tirnbs to have been unrivalled in his tame. Tho huildinß contains in its solid piers and concrete foundations a network of wrought-iron hooping, a device which has been dcvelopwl recently under tho nam© of ferro-conereto or reinforced concrete. The original liixchange tv<i3 built on wooden piles. whioh ut tho time of the Gre°.t Fire proved but indifferent. props for a ball that was emblematic of the wealth of a groatD»tion. * "With tho. earthquake on Christmas D.*vV, 1922, and the exceptionally he-ivy storm on December 25th, 19"J3. there were many conjectures as to what would ll&ppen, -so far as the elements* -were concerned. yesterday. From this point cf view things passed off uneventfully, and although tho sky was heavily overcast, with rain threatening oil eions, conditions outdoors wcro not unpleasant till Into in tho aftcrnco-ii, when rain set in. There was a fair amount of traffic an the trams throughout the day, mostly to tho seaside and' Gnshmere Hills, but taken on the whole this Christmas, as with many others in the past, was quite uneventful.