313 Road Deaths in Melbourne Last Year
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The annual, rerort of the city coroner (Mr. Titgate) reveals that 313 road deaths occurred in Melbourne during…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
623 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 32
Value Of Motor Industry To Australia
AN important point in connection with the World's automobile industry is that the major cost of new cars and trucks is expended in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"T H E M I N E R" Motor Section. Topical Motoring CONDUCTED by— "TRANSMISSION" Building Cars In Australia
BEHIND the announcement that a company has been registered with a capital of £50,000 to prepare for the manufacture of…
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DURING the terrific heat wave which many parts of Australia experienced, probably little thought was given to the huge saving in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Leaders in Cricket Competition Four Teams In Hard Fight Top Position to Railway Town
FOUR teams are fighting hard for the two top positions in the Cricket League's A Grade competition in which the seventh series of matches will be played tomorrow…
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The Minister for Transport and President of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales recently had published a code comprising such…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Memorial For Late Mr. A. Morris Railway Town Suggestion
A memorial to the late Mr. Albert Morris will probably be erected by the Railway Town Progress Association in memory…
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A local motorist, who returned from the Burra yesterday, was loud in his praise of the improvement made to the Adelaide road. He did the trip…
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WHEN goldfields were opened up in the mountainous interior of New Guinea, transport of goods required there proved a difficult problem…
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A shooting party of three men and a woman found an elderly man, stripped of his clothes and severely battered about the head,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Topical Motoring CONDUCTED by— "TRANSMISSION" To Avoid Carburettor Trouble
The intense heat wave with which motorists in many parts of Australia recently had to contend caused a considerable amount of carburation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local Man Killed in Sydney W. H. Reichers Hit By Trams
CRUSHED between two trams in George-street, Sydney, Mr. Wilhelm H. Belchers (71), of Tallebung, near Condobolin,…
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School vacation will [?] by drawing to a close and many thousands of children throughout the State will be travelling by various means of…
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DESCRIBED in court as "a madman on a motor cycle" and "a menace to other road users," a motor cyclist was ordered to pay £15 on two charges in the Norwood Court yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Miss Phyllis Gurney, assistant secretary of Airlines of Australia Ltd., has been appointed manager of the Kew England…
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HOBART, Saturday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) revealed today that an important part of the Commonwealth defence programme…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car Wrecked at South B.H. Motorist Allegedly Drove Negligently
EVIDENCE relating to an accident at South Broken Hill on the night of December 9 was given in the Police Court today before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., when the driver of one of the cars concerned in the accident faced…
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Tonnage carried over the Silverton Tramway Co.'s line for the week ended February 1 is given below. (The previous week's figures are given in…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Under legislation which the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) is preparing for Parliament, advertising hoardings…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The Miner" Motor Section Motoring Notes Conducted by "Transmission" London To Capetown In 32 Days English Motorists Break Record
IT is not so many years ago that a French mechanised expedition attracted attention by negotiating sections of the dreaded Sahara Desert with Renault cars, equipped with creepers in place of standard type wheels. That pioneer adventure, in view of the…
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