MAIL CAR BURNED
FIRE AFTER ENGINE TROUBLE REMOVAL OF ACCESSORIES from Our Oxen Correspondent HAMILTON, Wednesday. A five-seater motor-car, owned by Mr. Wratten, mail contractor, of Cambridge, was destroyed by fire on the main Hamilton-Cambridge Road last evening or early this morning. Mr. Wratten was returning to Hamilton with mail at about 9.30 p.m., but experienced engine trouble. When assistance arrived from Hamilton the engine of the car was found to be in flames. The flames were extinguished with wet sand. Mr. Wratten transferred the mail to another car and proceeded to Hamilton. On his returning to Cambridge at 11 p.m. his car was intact. This morning, however, it was found to have been practically destroyed by fire. A number of fittings, including the headlamps, radiator cap, wheel cap and lyres had been removed from the car duriDg the night. A tyre was later found hidden in some undergrowth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 850, 19 December 1929, Page 11
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149MAIL CAR BURNED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 850, 19 December 1929, Page 11
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