Metro Bus Accident Loch Street Claremont
1928Six photographs of a bus accident in Loch Street, Claremont near Bedford Street.
98.109a
Bus with white top, dark lower body and sign on side of roof [PERTH-CLAREMONT-FREMANTLE] is in the garden of a weatherboard house. It has demolished the window area of the building. Two men are looking at the damage, a small child is 'pushing' the bus and an older boy is looking on. Two bicycles are leaning against the rail of the cyclone fence behind which is a hedge.
98.109b
The scene from the garden where the damaged window shade is lying on the lawn. A number of onlookers are surveying damage and planks are being placed behind bus.
98.109c
Side of the bus showing the damage to the front of the house. Two men in shirt sleeves, and waistcoats partly obscure the [METRO] sign on the bus and another is lying down partly under it.
98.109d
From the adjoining property, the bus partly hidden by close picket fence.
98.109e
Damage to house when bus was removed.
A man stands in the hole in the wall and a man and a woman are in the garden.
98.109f
The damaged house from a distance.
In the foreground shrubs and grasses partly obscure the Perth-Fremantle taxi of Herbert Foss Tonkin.
The bus was said to have been on its way to the 'Claremont Girls High School'.
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Source: Claremont Museum 98.109a
Source: Claremont Museum 98.109b
Source: Claremont Museum 98.109c
Source: Claremont Museum 98.109d
Source: Claremont Museum 98.109e
Source: Claremont Museum 98.109f
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