BLAZE IN SYDNEY.
BIG MOTOR WORKS DESTROYED. HEAVY LOSSES OF CARS. SYDNEY, March 1. Fire last night destroyed Holden’s motor-body building works in William Street, City. The Ramage is estimated ar £lOO,OOO. The flames spread to the Morris Motor Service Station and to Swald’s garage, both adjoining. Morris’s was- gutted, and Oswald’s severely damaged. There were many full petrol tanks in Holden's, and the explosion of one of these injured a fireman and threw into the air a heavy metal cylinder, which crashed through the roof of a nearby house. A crowd of forty thousand watched the outbreak and almost stampeded in panic whefi the ovehead electric tram wires in William Street fused. The crowd rushed in all directions to escape the wires, which, it was thought, would fall. Many women fainted, but no one was injured. When it was seen that the wires had not fallen the crowd returned. More than 200 motor cars were destroyed in Holden’s, and 40 in Morris’s. As the result of the outbreak hundreds of men will be thrown put of employment.—(P.A.).
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Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 7
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178BLAZE IN SYDNEY. Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 7
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