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Railways, roads & transport, 1921

1,849 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 93

Up in an Aeroplane

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 7

Our Wingham correspondent "The Wanderer." semis us a description of his Might in an aeroplane piloted by Lieut. F. L. Roberts and…

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The Public Roads

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 1

On account of the motor lorry being about to play a most prominent part in the transit of merchandise and produce in the outlying parts of…

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Road Repairing. London, Jan. 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 10

The military authorities commandeered a number of labourers and others to repair the main Limerick to Kennis-road which had been…

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Parliamentary Tour. the Rich North. Need for Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 2

The Ministers and members of the State Parliament touring the North. Coast reached Lismore on Thursday afternoon…

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French Railway Collision. London, February 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 5

Reuter's Paris correspondent wires: Ten were killed and 47 injured in a head-on collision between a passenger train and goods train near Limoges…

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Railway Disaster. Tale of Human Weakness. London, February 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 4

The Welsh railway disaster is not a mystery, but "A plain tale of human weakness." according to the statement of Lieutement-Colonel Pringle who…

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Motor Cyclist Killed Tragedy at Carnival

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 9

The Gilgandra motor cycle carnival was held on the 26th [?] in the presence of a large crowd that came from an parts of the west…

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Railway Workers. Co-operative Stores. and Other Things. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 4

The executive of the Railway Workers' Industry branch of the A.W.U. has decided to establish a number of co-operative stores. A motion dealing…

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Railway Disaster. Several Fatalities. London, January 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 11

Fourteen were killed and many injured in a heiul-on collision between a local train from Montgomery and the Coast express, at Abermule, on the…

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Tram Accident. Four Persons Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 February 1921 · page 4

Four persons were injured at kogarah on Saturday afternoon, when in consequence of the breaking of the front axle, a stream tram engine jumped the line,…

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Better Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 3

Sir,—Pe[?] me on began of myself and many ledow ra[?]payers to express appreciation for the management published service you have rendered by the…

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Bridge—titcume

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 5

Churchill, the home of Mr and Mrs G. W. Titcume, of Monkerai, was the scene of a very pretty wedding on, 19th ultimo, when their eldest…

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Tram Smash. Collision with Lorry. Brakes Refuse to Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

Shortly after 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, on one of the busiest sections of the North Sydney tram service. in Miller-street, a tram collided…

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Railway Employees' Picnic

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

A picnic under the auspices of the traffic and permanent way branches of the Railway Department, Singleton to Gosford section, was held at Toronto…

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Local and General News Motor Car Agent Wanted

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

Australian Motors, Ltd., who advertise regularly in our columns the Australian Six motor car, write that they are prepared to accept an approved…

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Roads Supervision. Expenditure on Engineers. Extravagant and Ineffective

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 February 1921 · page 4

In urging our plea for better roads for Maitland and district we have repeatedly pointed out, the Identity of interests of the users of the roads over a considerable area of which Maitland is the commercial centre; and the consequent absurdity, of those" roads being under such a number of…

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The Tramway Smash

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 February 1921 · page 5

The Tramway Employees' Union demand to be represented at the departmental inquiry into the tramway smash at North Sydney. The…

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"The Dove" Aeroplane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

Caption G. C. Wilson,. M.C., A.F.C., D.C.M., arrived in Singleton shortly before noon yesterday in his new aeroplane…

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Glass Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

"Five years hence there will probably be about 2,000,000 motor vehicles of all kinds in this country as against the present-day estimate of about 750,000."…

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£80.000 Left in a Train. Restored by Railwayman, Who Gests £2.000 Reward

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

When entering a taxi-cab at the Gare St. Lazare early one recent morning Mr. Eric Wessend a rich American business man, who had arrived by the beat…

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