Drives Motor Vans From Blaze
A MAN left his wife and two children at the dinner table, ran from his home, and drove four lorries out of a blazing garage in Sussex…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
463 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 24
Goods Train Derailed Melbourne, Tuesday 1
Several trucks were smashed and derailed when a goods train from Maryborough ran into the back of a stationary ballast train near Sunshine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cwth. Organisation To Train Skilled Workmen SYDNEY
The Commonwealth Government will probably launch a scheme as part of the Australian war effort which will make substantial changes in technical…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Raid on Railway Protest By French PARIS, February 5
Forty-five persons were killed and 124 injured when Japanese planes bombed the Haiphong-Yunnan railway on Thursday. Five of those killed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last Offices To Leave Tramway CENTRAL F.C. Obtains One
WITH the removal tomorrow of the superintendent's former office from the Silverton Tramway Co. Ltd.'s yard at Railway Town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Producer Gas For British Motor Lorries LONDON, February 6
The feasibility of using producer gas as an alternative to petrol as fuel for commercial vehicles is announced in a report published today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pooley Bridge Sore
MELBOURNE, Thursday —Pooloy Bridge was to have been nominated for the Warrein Hurdle, to be run at Caulfield on Saturday week, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Ship Sinks After Strange Explosion Passengers And Crew Saved (Special to "The Mirier.") LONDON, February 7
THE Munster (4305 tons), the crack passenger motor ship of the Irish Channel service, was sunk by a mysterious explosion early today. All the passengers and crew have been saved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"T H E Mine R" Motor Section. Topical Motoring Conducted by "Transmission." New Method Of Power Rating
AT a recent conference of automotive engineers held in New York, the subject of horsepower, as a means of measuring automobile…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motors Permitted Now At Bermuda
FEW people know that there is one British possession with a population of about 28,000 which is greatly frequented by American and Canadian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Successful Red Gross Bridge Afternoon
THE first Wednesday of the month is to be reserved henceforth for a Red Cross bridge afternoon and a verygood beginning was made last Wednesday when a large number of players gathered at the Zinc Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Light Fines For Motorist Who Paid £7 Damages "UNFORTUNATE, ' ' SAYS S.M.
A MOTORIST who pleaded guilty to having driven a car with ineffective braKes and not guilty to a charge of negligent driving was fined £1/10/- In all with 16/- costs, when he appeared before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tramways Half-Yearly General Meetihg
Members of the United Tramways Rifle Club held their half-yearly general meeting at the waiting room of the Silverton Tramway Company…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Too Many People On Roads
Comments about the number of people who walk on the roadways in Broken Hill were passed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vic. Railwaymen Want Five-Day Week MELBOURNE
Unionists in railway workshops throughout Victoria have decided in favor of working a 44-hour week in five days instead of the present five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Playground To Be Erected Soon In Railway Town
Members of the Railway Town Progress Association hope soon to start on the erection of a children's play ground at the Hillside Reserve. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Drag Tests Resurfacing Local Roads
Testing work with the City Council's newly-acquired road dratr is being carried out in Blende. Street opposite the Duke of Cornwall Reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nazi 'Needs' Only Excuse for War Peaceful Road Could Have Been Taken
EXPOSING the insincerity and falsity of the German "lebensraum" argument, Dr. R. A. Millikan, the noted American scientist and Nobel Prize winner, who recently visited Australia, declared in a recent address…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car Crashes Over Bridge Two Killed and Driver Hurt Adelaide
BADLY smashed when it crashed into a post arid through a fence, a sedan car rolled 50ft. "down an embankment of the Thornton Bridge, Ethelton, killing two men and seriously injuring the driver…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Town Make Solid Stand
A FIRM stand by Railway Towns' opening batsmen, J. Hannett and M. Purdie, took the sting from Wests' bowling attack and placed Railway Town in a m ost satistactory position when their match was, continued at the Western Oval this afternoon…
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