FIRE SPEED IN CAR

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3870, 29 October 1932, Page 7

FIRE SPEED IN CAR

THEORIES ANl> OPINIONS LIBEL CLAIM EVIDENCE tA-ist and N.Z Cable) , Sydney, October 27. Giving' evidence in Wizat Smith’s libel suit against Smith’s Weekly, Mr DonaiHurkness furnished theories concerning the cause of the fir. in Mr Sfith’s car, but said tithe only conclusion he h: formed was that some foreign substance had caused it. , lire could be deliberately causer with a petrol-soaked rag, and with the engine running there would he no difficulty in picking up a spark and igniting th rag. ilr Norman Josephson, consulting' eugineer, said that was not possible to cause a fire is the manner suggested by the plaintiff . expiresseo the oniuiun that a fire could causesd by loosening a clip • petrol supply pipe, allowing petrol to ooze out slowly and igniting by a spsark from one of the plugs.