PASSENGER BUS BURNED ON ROAD.
MACHINE REDUCED TO HEAP OF SCRAP METAL.
Mr S- B. Clement*’6 passenger bus, which left Christchurch for Oxford about seven o'clock on Saturday evening, was destroyed by fire on the trip. The driver, oq reaching Oxford, found that a lady passenger for Bennetts had over-carried, and he returned with her. On his way back to Oxford one of the tyres was punctured. When engaged in substituting a spare wheel with his engine running slowly, there was a sudden burst of flame under the bonnet near the petrol tank. The mishap was apparently caused by a short circuit. The driver could do nothing to extinguish the fire, which burned fiercely when the petrol tank burst, and the bus was soon a heap of scrap metal. The engine and .the spare wheel were the only portions worth salvaging. The vehicle, which bad a seating accommodation for twenty passengerr, had been on the road only for about a year. It is understood that the bus was insured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18016, 29 November 1926, Page 11
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