MOTOR-LORRY DAMAGED
STRUCK BY RAILWAY TRUCKS KING'S WHARF ACCIDENT A two-ton motor-truck which was being xmloaded on King's at mid-day yesterday .was extensively damaged through being crushed against a customs shed entrance by a rake of railway trucks. No one was injured, the driver being at the rear of the vehicle unloading it. The truck, which is owned by Kevey and Towers, contractors, of Otahuhu, was standing in the shed entrance with tho front wheels near the railway line. The front portion of the lorry was struck by a line of railway trucks being shunted from Quay Street. The stationary vehicle was crumpled against the corner of the entrance and severely damaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 8
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