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VEHICLE USED AS BATTERING RAM STORE DOOR BROKEN (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. July 20. Using a car or motor truck as a battering ram. thieves adopted a novel and daring method of breaking into the office of the Atlantic Union Oil Company store in Riccarton. Their haul amounted to £8 taken from a cash box. It is thought that the thieves ran their vehicle, which had a spare tyre in front as a buffer, across the gutter and grass footpath until they were able to push the door in, breaking the lock and carrying away part of the wooden frame. The bricks on either side of the door bore marks of the tread of a tyre, which was probably used as a buffer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 6
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