14 – The Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the
Noon Gun on
Signal Hill, is instituted by Cape Town Mayor Sir
Harry Hands.[3]
June
4 – RMS Kenilworth Castle, one of the
Union-Castle Line steamships, collides with her escort destroyer
HMS Rival while trying to avoid her other escort, the cruiser
HMS Kent.
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abStatement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 188, ref. no. 200954-13
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abHolland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England:
David & Charles. pp. 34, 36–37.
ISBN978-0-7153-5427-8.
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abcPaxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 58–61, 88.
ISBN0869772112.