Motor Horsepower Is It Out Of Date? Torque System Favored
At a recent conference, of automotive engineers held in New York, the subject of horse-power as a means of measuring automobile engine…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
718 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 36
Railway Excursion Next
There will be an excursion to Park Beach and Coff's Harbor next Sunday, the special train leaving Grafton station at 7.50 a.m. Handbills…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Copmanhurst Shire Endowment £2350 Per Annum EWlNGAR and Rafpville Roads General Rate of 2½d in the £
The Copmanhurst Shire Council has been advised by the Department of Works and Local Government that the endowment apportioned to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Accidents New Year Starts Badly
As reports are being received by the Department of Road Transport from all parts of the State, it is becoming more and more obvious that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General Expired Motor Licenses
At Coffs Harbour Police Court this morning, before Mr. N. C. L. Sheridan, Relieving P.M., George Durie and Patritk Burke were each fined 2s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mother's Ordeal Baby Born in Train. Sydney
A young woman living at Woy Woy gave birth to a girl on the Sydneybound train this morning. The mother was on her way to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Run Over by Train Coff's Harbor Man's Death Found Beside Line at Kyogle
Dennis Noonan, 43, an employee of the Tick Board staff at Coff's Harbor, was found beside the railway line at Kyogle to-night, with his left arm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist Injured
David Hancock, 17 years, of Old Bonalbo, was admitted to Casino Hospital in a critical condition, following a fall from a motor cycle, which skidded on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Delays North Coast Traffic Brisbane Express Held Up
Delays occurred to the up and down Brisbane express train yesterday morning extending up to over five hours in the case of the up Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No More German Motor Cars London
Berlin radio has announced that Germany's exports of motor cars to overseas countries have ceased owing to the war. It is pointed out in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coff's Harbor Railway Revenue
The stationmaster at Coff's. Harbor reports' the following figures for December, 1939:--Tickets, sold, 1833: revenue, goods £633, coasting freight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mills Bomb Found In Tram "Only a Casting." Sydney
The finding of a small Mills bomb in a tram created excitement at Burwood to-day. A man in a tram left a brown paper parcel behind him and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHIPPING Fewer Tramp Steamers for Australian Wheat Cargoes. Sydney
The shipping problem of the moment was paucity of tramp tonnage to lift types of cargo such as wheat and barley declared Sir. Thomas Gordon, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motorists' Corner Official R.a.c.a. Notes by "Carbon." Sunday Petrol Ban
The topic every motorist is discussing at the moment is, of course, the proposal to close garages on Sundays. It is by no means a new bone of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wants Enquiry Cameron and Motor Monopoly Adelaide
The Leader of the Federal Country party, Mr. Cameron, said to-day that he still held the opinion that an inquiry should be held regarding the granting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clear Signposting Essential To Pleasurable Motoring a Vacation Spoilt Striking Instance of Ill-advised Sign
An essential to pleasurable motor touring in strange places is clear signposting of direction and details. Without such road signs, motorists…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reply to Japan French Indo-China Railway China's Last Link with World. Paris
Japanese allegations that arms and munitions were going to China over the French Indo-China railway are officially denied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Park Beach Bridge
Park Beach Trustees, at the request of the Shire Council, forwarded to the Council at last meeting a letter stating that 13 blockholders at…
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Cr. Burke mentioned at the Shire Council meeting on Wednesday that the Park Beach Trustees had been defied on occasions by unauthorised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell From Train Man Killed at Wynyard Station. Sydney
Percy Dunningham, 52, of Rand- wick, brother "of" the' late Sir John Dunningham, was; killed by a train at Wynyard Station to-day…
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