CRASH!!!
SERVICE CAR'S CAREER SHOP WINDOW SHATTERED The crashing of splintered glass and broken timbers were the firsit intimation to persons in the Strand last Saturday evening that anything was amiss, apart from the orderly routine. Those who went to investigate discovered one of the large Railway Road Services 'buses with its nose through one of the large windows of Messrs D. C. Morpeth and Son's* drapery establishment. The 'bus which was empty at the time had been left with its engine running on the roadway. Owing to l the camber there was sufficient slant on the front wheels to enable it to commence a circuitous course towards the pavement. Gathering momentium the large vehicle mounted the kerb and struck thei base of the windoAv crashing the 1 foundation. The impact threw the vehicle back again but a second swing carried it through the plate glas's. The bus' was undamaged but the whole of the frontage was smashed and the goods in the' windows covered with shattered glass.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 29, 16 March 1942, Page 5
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168CRASH!!! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 29, 16 March 1942, Page 5
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