DEFECTIVE BRAKES.
$ .VICTORIAN RAILWAYS. By Telegraph—Prcss v Aß6ociatlon-^OopyrlEhfc -Melbourne, February 18. .' At an inquest concerning the death of the three victims of the; Beaufort railway accident,, q: driver , named Montgomery deposed l , that on the day of the accident ho took/ the . engine to; which the accident was due, from Ballarat to Geelong. He found leaks in tho airpipo and plugged them, and the brake worked perfectly. He reported the defect, in a book at Geelong; After the accident he oxamined the book and found the entry had been removed; ■
In connection with, tho second nanw. escape from,. accident at Beaufort' (re? ported yesterday, and attributed to defective brakes), when-: the. car left the rails tho pasisengers \ and.; two guards jumped off,' ono guard first . putting: the brake hard on. V
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 5
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131DEFECTIVE BRAKES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 5
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