RACE FOR A LINER
DASH OF 30 MILES IN A TAXI. After a thirty-miles’ race against time a Bolton taxicab driver reached Liverpool lately just in time for his passenger, Miss Mary Murphy, to board the Cunard Liner Caronia for New York. The last gangway of the vessel was about to be raised and a tug was ready to assist the liner from the stage when there was a commotion in the crowd on the landing stage and a cry of “Wait for me.” Miss Murphy, accompanied by a porter and the taxicab driver carrying her luggage, dashed on to the gangway and she was allowed to board;
Miss Murphy, who was going to join an aunt in New York, boarded the wrong train at Poulton-le-Fyldes, where she lived, and at 12.15 p.m. found herself in Bolton. The Caronia was due to sail at 1.30 p.m. In desperation she implored the taxicab driver to make a dash for Liverpool and he finished the thirty mites with only seconds to spare.
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Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 7
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170RACE FOR A LINER Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 7
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