"Wizard" Designer Motor Cycle Field
Mr. Joe Craig, of England has for many years played an important part in maintaining British motor cycling prestige all over the world and now…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
1,208 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 61
East-west Railway Federated Chambers
A meeting of delegates of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of the North Coast and Tablelands was held at Tenterfield on Saturday. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New X-ray Machine for Motor Tyre Service
A new X-ray machine has been devised in U.S.A. for use in motor tyre service stations. The outfit, which costs about £38 in America, detects the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tourist Trophy Runaway Victory Victorian Motor Cycle Races
The 1939 Australian "Tourist Trophy" motor cycle races decided on the Cowes Circuit, Phillip Island (Vic.), provided a triumph for the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road Safety
A public meeting is to be held at Tamworth on February 22 for the purpose of discussing the advisability of forming a branch of the Road Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£15,000 Roads Programme
Tintenbar Shire Council (Alstonville) has decided to seek approval for a £15,000 road works programme…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Concrete Road Nearly Completed
The Department of Main Roads reports that the four mile length of new concrete road through Ulmarra is progressing rapidly and will be completed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Casino Aerodrome Dept. Suggests Improvements. Lismore
In a letter to the Casino. Municipal Council, the Civil Aviation Department offered a number of suggestions for improving Casino aerodrome to make…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Smash Armidale Ambulance Involved Superintendent Injured
A head-on collision, in which six persons were injured and admitted to the Armidale and New England Hospital, occurred late on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Snake As Woman Motorist's Companion
Mrs. M. Fitzgibbon, a resident of Windsor, who drove a car from Mackay, earned a brown snake as a passenger in the back seat for three…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Old Man Killed Struck By Motor Cycle Ridden by Policeman, Lismore
Alexander McDonald, 70, was killed when struck by a police motor cycle on the showground hill at South Casino about 9.30 to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mountain Road Collision
Cars driven by Mr. A. Searl and Mr. Thompson, of Nana Glen, collided head on on the mountain road between Coramba and Eastern Dorrigo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Safety Vital Need for Care
Accidents continue to happen in country towns and on main roads, and their severity reveals that the primary causes in most of them are recklessness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. Deficit Nearly £5 MILLION For Seven Months Railways Partly Responsible Sydney
Retrogression in railway finances is responsible for a part of the State deficit of £4,813,457 for the seven months of the financial year ended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridge Crash Car Through Railings, Falls 15 Feet
A Chrysler sedan car, the property of Mr. J. McComisky, of the South Grafton railway refreshment rooms, who, it is understood, was not in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Talkies Garden Theatre. "The Road to Reno."
This evening at the Garden Theatre the Western comedy drama, "The Road to Reno," will commence its season. Randolph Scott is seen in the leading…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Orara Valley News. Hung Over Drop Car's Crash On Bridge Coff's Harbor Man's Escape. Coff's Harbor
Mr. R. J. Archibald, of Coff's Harbor, was fortunate to escape serious injury on Thursday afternoon when his car crashed through the railings of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia's New Mechanised Army Motor Units Subjected to Gruelling Military Tests
The spur, so long a symbol of the artillery man's association with the horse, is rapidly disappearing from that branch of the service. In British…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Racing Four-mile Circuit
An up-to-date motor racing road circuit is to be constructed at Ballarat (Victoria). The 4-mile circuit will have a bitumen surface 30ft. wide,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clarence Bridge Smash
CAR OVER EMBANKMENT. The Chrysler sedan car which crashed through the railings of the Clarence River bridge approach on Friday morning and came to rest at the bottom of the embankment. The photo shows the top railing, which was…
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