HOUSE OT WHEELS
TROUBLE IN THE STREET. A contractor’s bold scheme to shift a house bodily from one site- to another almost ended in disaster at Ryde, near Sydney. The building was jacked up from the foundations, and wheels were placed under it. A motor-tractor was then attached, and the journey commenced.
The crew had trouble in steering their unwieldy charge along the narrow streets. Whenever the house eommenc‘ed to slew round or a mbtor-car appeared a- halt was called. At a street corner the experiment almost came to an abrupt end. The house struck against telegraph poles on each side of the street and held fast. The men in charge worked hard for several hours before they •marta'ged Ltd pry the structure ' loose! Finally*-the'' journey ‘whs' ,: rertiipeil, ( piid the' libiis’e "/as soon oirtitfiri fbtinda--.■liifsrf.no .rmsv,-■ ■■ cd-m 3 covr F-n-lu] ‘ \ VAtAll '• 9-dio > S-flJj
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 June 1930, Page 15
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143HOUSE OT WHEELS Taranaki Daily News, 6 June 1930, Page 15
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