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

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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U.S.A. Motor Firms Merge

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 3

New York: The Hudson Motor Car Company and the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, of Detroit, merged…

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48 Diesels for W.A. Railways

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 5

London: The first of 48 1,105 h.p. diesel electric locomotives for the Western Australian Government—the…

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Cockburn Road Work

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1

The Minister for Transport (Mr. E. Wetherell) stated yesterday that work…

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Crowds Line Roads of Christchurch

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1

Christchurch (N.Z.): Ten thousand people acclaimed the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the civic welcome today in Cathedral Square in the shadow of the…

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State Members and Petition on Roads

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 5

Messrs E. Wetherell and W. E. Wattison refused an invitation from the Better and Safer Roads Committee to attend a meeting on the ground that their…

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Fate Of Roads Petition Committee Still Concerned

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1

Mr. J. W. Fox, president of the Better and Safer Roads Committee, yesterday made the following statement:…

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Cars Collide on Silverton Road

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 3

Slight damage to two cars resulted from a head-on collision on the Silverton Road at about 9.45 p.m. on…

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Rode Motor Cycle While Under The Influence

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1

A Wilcannia man, Reginald Maxwell De Goumols was fined £5, in addition to [?] his license for twelve…

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Bridge Dodger Flies Again

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 6

London Monday: The British Ministry of Civil Aviation has restored the flying licence of the "Mad…

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Comments of Readers Menindee Road

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 2

To the Editor, Sir.— Through the columns of your valued newspaper may I address an "Open letter to the…

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Modern Service of Nsw Railway

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 8

Recently I mentioned that a boon had been conferred on rail travellers in this State by the introduction of air-conditioned express trains…

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Tramway Log Discussion

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 7

The Silverton Tramway Employees' Union will hold a mass meeting at the Trades Hall on Sunday to…

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Motor Truck Overturns

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 4

A motor lorry driver and his two passengers escaped serious injury after their truck overturned on the…

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Car Overturns On Cockburn Road

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 10

Two women passengers were treated for shock and the driver suffered abrasions to the right arm. when a car…

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Menindee Road (To the Editor)

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 11

Sir.—Through the column's of your valued newspaper I wish to address an "Open letter to the general…

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Hypnotised Drivers In Motor Car Rally

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 6

London, Wednesdoy: Hypnotic treatment was given two British car drivers shortly before they left Glasgow on a three-day 1050-mile Monte Carlo rally…

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Motor Firm Expands

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 4

New York, Wednesday: General Motors announced another 1000 million dollars (£A.446,000,000) expansion…

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Motoring News Secret Controls

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 5

The 1954 Redex round-Australia trial will be less a race and more a reliability test of stock cars than its predecessor…

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Fall From Train

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

Melbourne: A married woman fell out of a speeding electric train at Windsor Station today…

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The Barrier Miner Friday, January 22, 1954. Rehabilitating Roads

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

DECISIONS taken at the recent conference of State Premiers and the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Butler, will mean loan money becoming available…

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