Car nearly ‘bottled’
A consignment of cosmetic bottles was severely damaged when , a container fell from a truck in McAlpine Avenue, Sockbum, just before mid-day yesterday. - --- ‘ The container came to rest against a parked car, which it damaged slightly. Nobody was in the car. “It was lucky the container fell against the car rather than on it The car would have been said a Ministry of Transport spokesman. : ’■ The cosmetic bottles, made by Crown ’Crystal
Glasslat Hornby, were being sent to a client in Sydney via Lyttelton when the accident occurred? ? A 'spokesman for Crown Crystal said first reports suggested that the entire consignment, worth several thousand' dollars, was smashed. “But it’ will. take some time to ’open the container and check all the contents,”, he said. . ■;The damaged container, stiff en its side, - was lifted by - crane on'Vto another truck.' ’ ■ ’
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Press, 17 June 1980, Page 6
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