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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1923

2,882 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 56 of 145

Motor Car Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1923 · page 4

When crossing High-street near the embankiment early on Saturday evening, Mr. Roy McRac, a cartor, residing in Maitland, was run down…

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Motor Car Destroyed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1923 · page 4

Mr. Archie Campbell's Clarence Town Buick motor service car was destroyed by fire about two and a half miles from Clarence Town at…

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Motor Smash. Car Crashes Through Fence. Woman Seriously Injured. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1923 · page 5

A motor car, containing Mr. W. Baker, a member of a prominent city firm, his wife aud daughter, crashed through a fence near Faulconbridge…

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An Aeroplane Reaches Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 1

In the early days of last century the stage-coach was the only means or allowing the people to travel to various parts of the country. Then…

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Wallarobba Shire Council Bendolba-upper Williams Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Wallarobba Shire Council was held on Wednesday last, when there were present, Crs. R. W. Alison…

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Allynbrook Motor Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 4

Mr. Roy.Hancock announces that his motor car leaves Allynbrook Mondays and Thursdays only for Maitland at 7.30 a.m. and. Gresford…

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A Remarkable New Tramcar

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 1

It is an extraordinary fact that the tramear of the present day is in all its essential features very, much the same as the first electric tramears put on…

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Motorist's Narrow Escape Saved by a Wire

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 3

Mr Branhan, a Sydney motorist, had an extraordinary escape from death near Hampton, at Lithgow, a single strand of fencing wire being…

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Camurra-boggabilla Railway

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

The Public Works Committee has approved of the proposal to construct a line of railway from Camurra to Boggabilla. The estimated length of the…

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Motor Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

It does not matter how careful a car driver may be he can bump ill-luck. Tom Quinn, who is known as one of Cessnock's most careful drivers, met…

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Aeroplane Mishap. Three Lives Lost. London May 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 5

A naval aeroplane, practising wireless, fell into the sea off Christiania, when the wing collapsed. Two lieutenants and a…

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Appalling Aeroplane Smash Seven Persons Burnt to Death

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 3

London, Tuesday.—A Paris message states that seven persons were killed through a Partisan Goliath aeroplane crashing near, Amiens. The pTane…

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Tram and Motor. Collision in Sydney. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 5

A tram and motor car collided in Anzac Parade this morning as a result of which William Bird was injured. He was taken to the…

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Melbourne Robbery Motor Driver Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 3

Frederick Charles Daniels, 27, a motor driver, alias Henry Wilson, was arrested on Wednesday in Melbourne, and charged with stealing…

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Railway Magnate Dead London, May 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 5

A message from Mentone announces th death at the age of 59 if Mr. George Jay Gould, the American railway magnate…

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Motor Smash. Nurse's Leg Broken. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 5

A motor car, containing four passengers, in addition to the driver, struck the end of Jones Bridge, near Young, at midnight, carrying away…

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Daring Robbery Melbourne Railway Office

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 2

A daring robbery was committed at the Railway Office in Spencer-street, Melbourne, on Tuesday. Pay clerks took a bag containing…

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Noisy Motor Cycles

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 1

It is a curious fact that the smallest motors are gt-ncrally the noisiest. A huge waggon will get along with only, a fraction of the noise made by an or…

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Hotel Motor Garages

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 2

Hotels at Young mil have to provide motor garages in the future, if the suggestions made by Mr M'Dougall, P.M. at the Licensing Court there are…

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Women Tea Drinkers 5,000 at Sydney Railway Refreshment Rooms

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1923 · page 4

It is estimated that on any one day 5000 are served at the Government Sydney Railway Refreshment Rooms. As the guardians of the public health the…

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