BURST INTO FLAMES
MOTOR-BUS DESTROYED.
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, 29th November. 4 S. E. Clements passenger bus, which left Christchurch for Oxford about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening, was destroyed by fire on the trip. The driver, on reaching Oxford, found that a lady passenger for Bennett's had been over-carried, and he returned with her. On the way back one of the tires was punctured, and while the driver was engaged in substitutiing a spare wheel, with his engine running slowly, there was a sudden burst of flame under the bonnet near the petrol tank. The mishap was apparently caused by a short circuit. The driver could do nothing to extinguish the fire, which burned fiercely when the petrol tank burst, and the bus was soon a heap of scrap metal. The engine and the spare wheel were the only portions worth salvaging.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 8
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