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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1927

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Motor Car Overturns on the Silverton Road

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon Angas Samuels, of 20 Beryl-street, was driving a motor car containing as passengers Tony Guratovich, of…

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Motor Buses Collide on Keswick Road 4 Persons Slightly Injured. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

Four persons were slightly injured in a motor bus collision on Anzac Highway, Keswick, this afternoon as a result of one vehicle bumping into the…

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Pilot Cut About the Face When Aeroplane Crashes Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

An aeroplane crashed near Portland on Saturday, the nose of the machine being wrecked. The pilot was cut about the face and head. Two…

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Fatalities and Accidents Rider of Motor Cycle Killed on Windsor-road Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

Francis Williams (25), of Haberfield, was fatally injured and Thelma Smith (20), of Marrickville, a sidecar passenger, was critically injured when a cycle…

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South Australia Girl Struck by Motor Car After Leaving a Tram Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

Betty Cailes (l4), of Mypolonga, stepped from a fram on the E[?]tield-road this morning and was struck by a motor car driven by Mr…

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No Organised System of Motor Bus Transport Council May Runbuses on the Present Tram Lines

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

The city yesterday and to-day was without any organised system of transport, and this state of affairs is likely to continue for some time, as the…

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Stolen Motor Vehicles Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

During 1926 car thieves in New South Wales stole cars nnd motor cycles worth in the aggregate nearly £170,000. At the end of the year…

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Brunken Motorist Man Fined £20 in Adelaide Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

Daniel Tierney, of Freeling, was fined £20 and his motor driver's license was suspended for three months in the Adelaide Police Court this morning…

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Alleged Stolen Motor Cars. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

During Saturday. five motor cars valued at £4000 were s[?]sed at a garage in Richmond. The police took possession of £3000 worth of tyres,…

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Railway Workers Paid for Suggestions Given Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

In the past five years the Victorian Railways Department has paid £10,000 to its employees for ideas. Since 1922 more than 1800 suggestions have been…

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Victoria Alleged Motor Car Thieves. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

Vincent Pickett (29), of Pickett's Geelong Motor Bus Service, was arrested on Saturday and charged with stealing a motor car. Two others were…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured. by Unknown Motorists Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

John Hunter (22), of Hartley, was riding a cycle near Mount Victoria yesterday afternoon when a motor, car dashed into him. Hunger was thrown…

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Motor Car Overturns Two Occupants Found Dead and Another Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

A motor car was found overturned at Mallacoota on Sunday. Two of the occupants, William and Norman Clarke, were dead, and George Harding was…

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Little Roy Injured by a Tramway Bus Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

While standing on the Esplanade near Largs Bay jetty to-day Norman Hales (7). of Rosewater, was struck by a tramway bus. He suffered a…

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Stopping the Trams Men Hold Farewell Social Reference to Bus Service Statement by Mayor

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

There was a good attendance at the Government Tramway Employees' Club rooms at the tramway depot on Saturday night when the members of the…

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Collision in Oxide-street Motor Cyclist Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

Leonard Frederick Flack (21), residing in Qxide-street, was admitted to the Hospital on Near Year'a Eve suffering from heed injuries caused by…

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Barrier Miner. Monday, January 3, 1927. Substitutes for Trams

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

I[?] was recently reported that a number of motor bus proprietors had applied for licenses to carry passengers in the town after the stopping of the…

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The Holidays New Year's Eve Revels Tram Drivers' Farewell Blown by Whistles

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

New Year's Eve passed off very quietly, there bring in the street on Friday night little more than the usual number of people. After the…

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Motor Cars Collide

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

Francis Reginald Hebbard was driving a motor car along Argent-street at about 5.[?]0 p.m. on Saturday and when crossing the intersection of…

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Traffic Prosecution Man Drove a Horse Past Stationary Train

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 3

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., Chief Health Inspector D. H. Wallace, on behalf of the Municipal Cou[?]cil,…

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