While repairing a high-pressure i motor-van tyre, a Dunedin service station proprietor was the victim of a painful and somewhat unusual accident. He had finished vulcanising a patch, and having affixed the lock ring, was pumping the tyre up, when without warning the tube blew out, the explosion being sufficient to drive the ring with considerable force against his head. Fortunately he was wearing a cap, the peak of which afforded some protection, but even then, the flying ring inflicted a gash in his forehead which Lreauiwwl tbo insertion of 14 stitches.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 10
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