THE STRAND BLOCKED.
PIANOS CALL THE TUNE. Two grand pianos held up traffic in the Strand on September 10, and it was only with the assistance of several policemen, a crowd, and motor lorries (which acted as tugs) that normal conditions were restored. About 6 o’clock one of tha new type of electrically-driven lorries with low body and small wheels, laden with five upright ana two grand pianos in wooden cases, was turning from the Strand on to Waterloo Bridge, when the rope holding the instruments snauped. The two grand pianos fell into the roadway. There was a complete block of tha Jreavy traffic until the pianos were dragged by lorries to a wide point of the roadway.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 15
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118THE STRAND BLOCKED. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 15
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