ENGINE FLIES ADRIFT
Accident to Speed-boat
Dominion Special Service.
Palmerston North. January 27.
While testing a specially-tuned engine in a speed-boat at Foxton last week, Mr. T. Madge, of Palmerston North, bad a narrow escape from serious injury when the engine suddenly flew off the transom while the boat was travelling at a moderate speed. The engine, which is valued at £lOO, sank into deep water, but was eventually recovered on Saturday morning with one cylinder burst by contact with the cold water.
Only a little over a month ago Mr. Madge had a similar accident, but on that occasion the ocupants of tbo boat were precipitated into the
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 8
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109ENGINE FLIES ADRIFT Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 8
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