TRAM ON FIRE
Prompt Action At New Plymouth
PA NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 6. Smoke pouring up through the floor boards of a crowded tram car as it began to draw away from the Devon street central stop, New Plymouth, on its journey to port late tonight prompted immediate action. As heavy black smoke and the pungent smell of burning rubber enveloped the car the passengers quickly alighted and a transport department officer on a motor cycle went screaming up Devon street for the fire brigade. The cause was a stort circuit in one of the tram’s two motors, which had ignited the rubber insulation around the cables. The brigade extinguished the fire with bucket pumps, but not before the floor boards had been charred and the motor badly burned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27515, 9 October 1950, Page 8
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129TRAM ON FIRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 27515, 9 October 1950, Page 8
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