RUNAWAY TRAM STOPPED
.QUICK ACTION BY AUCKLAND MOTORMAN (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 17. When a tramway motorman, Mr R. Taberner, was driving a* tram along Jervois road towards the city this morning he saw a driverless tram pass him, travelling in the same direction on the next track. Stopping his tram, he jumped off and chased the other, which he stopped before it reached an intersection. The runaway tram had collided. with the rear of another tram. Just before the collision the driver had thrown the mechanism Into reverse. In the collision the motorman’s compartment of the tram had been wrenched off, the motorman. Mr S. C. Ramsay, going with the compartment but escaping injury. The tram had then answered its reverse mechanism, travelling backwards without the driver’s compartment, until stopped by Mr Taberner. The driver of the other tram in the collision. Mr R. F. Dawdron, of Avondale, suffered a slight hand injury.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25086, 18 January 1947, Page 2
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