Plane Crashed in Yemen
RAF Britannia with seven passengers and seven crew overshot the runway at Khomaskar base recently. ploughing through security lights at the perimeter fence before coming to rest on the shallow salt flats.The pilot and the co-pilot were slightly hu...
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Cycle Race
Rail gates at Beruwala failed to stop competitors at yesterday's 'Mirror' sponsored Second Paragon Tour. As the picture shows the riders cleared this 'hurdle' with ease and pedaled away cheered by thousands who lined the street.
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Cycle
Police are now checking push cycles licenses and numbers. This check serves a double purpose —to bring to book those persons who have unlicensed cycles and help trace stolen cycles. This picture was taken at the Eye Hospital junction, Colombo.
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The Winners of 50+ Cycle Race
The winners of the 50+ cycle race - first place D. Joeph (left), second place G. Albert (middle) and the third place Joseph Fernando (right). The event was organized by the Wennappuwa residents and the police, led by the minister of fisheries Fest...
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Bicycles
Some of the several hundred bicycles abandoned at the Post and Telecommunication Stores due to the lack of spare parts.
Daily Mirror
Cycle
The B.S.A Safety Shopping Model which was introduced at the Earls Court Show, proved an unbounded success that it was made available fitted with the B.S.A Winged Wheel Motor Unit, thus offering the housewife a power driven shopping machine, which ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Musical Show
The festival at Thissamaharama municipal council ground was held by the participation of the Hambantota regional minister P.M.B Siril and his wife. There among the invited guests was the Guruge Gems Cooperative's chairman, Guruge Jinadasa.
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Cycle Race
These village girls are celebrating President J.R Jayewardene's victory with a bicycle race and are ready to start the campaign for his Referendum.
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Family Transport
Picture by Thomas De Silva, 1st Prize winner of Readers' snap series 32 from Weuda titled "Family Transport"
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31st Peace Cycle Race Berlin - Prague - Warsaw
The 31st Peace Cycle Race ended with Soviet victories in the individual and team classifications in Warsaw. 23 year old Alexander Averin (c.) won the 1978 Peace Cycle Race. his team mate Yuri Sakharov (l.) was second and Mircea Romascanu (r.) from...
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