CABLE CAR MISHAP
ELDERLY WOMAN HURT COLLISION WITH TRAILER [ Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Feb. 24. An elderly woman suffered injuries necessitating her removal to hospital and other passengers suffered bruises and a shaking when the Mornington cable car collided with a stationary trailer at the tr£m terminus. The car was reaching its destination from the city when a bunch developed in the rope behind the gripper, The gripman was unable to check the car’s progress in time to prevent it striking a trailer which was pushed off the line across a turntable to come to rest against the kerb outside a shop.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 7
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102CABLE CAR MISHAP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 7
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