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401 and Furnival Intersection - Tobacco Truck Accident
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- February 20, 1964
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Location
- R12 S1 Sh5 B1 147
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- R12 S1 Sh5 B1 147
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- February 20, 1964
- Series
- Harley Lashbrook Collection - Photographs series
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w negative ; 6 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Three black-and-white negative photographs featuring a tobacco truck accident at the intersection of the 401 and Furnival, on February 20, 1964.
- R12 S1 Sh5 B1 147 was published in the West Lorne Sun on February 20, 1964, with the caption: "Disposing of last year's tobacco took on a new twist at the intersection of 401 and Furnival a week ago Monday, when a transport truck loaded with 42 hogsheads of flue was being transported to Canadian Leaf's Chatham plant. The feed truck in the background came in contact with the transport as the latter was passing, resulting in 37 of the trucks 42 hogsheads rolling off the truck, some breaking up and spilling their contents all over the road and others rolling 150 yards."
- Name Access
- Rodney (Ont.)
- Rodney Mercury
- Highway No. 401 (Ont.)
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