DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
SUBURB OF SYDNEY MOTOR-BODY FACTORY BATTLE WITH THE FLAMES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 22, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 22 While nearly 100 policemen and police cadets kept in check a seething crowd of excited onlookers, firemen from five brigades fought a desperate battle yesterday with the flames that destroyed the motor-body building factory of Messrs. Peters, Bryden and Peters, in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney. Drums of petrol and paint exploded, and many of the 150 employees had remarkable escapes from injury. Several valuable vehicles were saved, but damage estimated at many thousands of pounds was done to others. Employees braved the flames and drove out vehicles until it was impossible to do anything further in the overpowering fumes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21859, 23 July 1934, Page 10
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