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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1924

3,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 192

Motor Power for Every Duty

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 6

We are Engineers and Boiler Makers, and specialise in everything appertaining to motor power. Our stocks of vertical and…

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Absorbed Odours in Cream. Control of Motor and Oil Fames

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 6

Where oil motors are installed in the dairy there is always danger of having the milk or cream adversely affected by absorbed odours and flavours…

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Recent Motor Accident Death of the Victim

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 7

Joseph Minto, who was knocked down and run over by a motor car last Saturday night near the corner of Vincent and Hall Streets, in…

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Motor Bus Services Guarding Against Breakdowns

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 8

A report was submitted to the Cessnock Shire Council yesterday from the inspector stating that Leslie Brown had made application for…

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South Maitland Railways

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 7

The renewed proposals regarding the resumption by the State of the South Maitland railways is creating a great deal of interest and…

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New Railway Station

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 7

That the time is rapidly approaching when the new railway station at Cessnock will be ready for use is indicated by an advertisement in this…

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Public Roads

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 6

Mr P. S. Garling writes:—"The Good Roads Association and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that ride in motors should make their…

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Good Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 6

It is truly [?]astonishing that the people of New South Wales appear to be only now awakening to the fact that good roads are a necessity for…

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Fatal Injuries. Fall From a Bridge

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 13

Robert Burnley aged 63, was walking over the Cook's River Railway Bridge when a train approached, and in stepping to one side to avoid it…

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Newcastle-maitland Road. Proposed Concrete Roadway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 3

The following scheme for the reconstruction of the above road was prepared by Mr. J. F. Shine, Newcastle City Engineer, to be placed…

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Newcastle Road. Improvements Necessary. Conference in Town Hall

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 5

The condition of the Newcastle-road between West Maitland and Newcastle has for some time been agitating the minds of Local…

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Peculiar Accident. Pinned Down by Motor Car

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 13

At the result of injuries received when cleaning a motor car, F. J. Bull, residing at Drummoyne, was admitted to hospital on Sunday night, in a…

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Woman Killed. Motor Car Overturns. Three People Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 16

A women, Mrs. Rev. aged 49 of Camberwell (Vic.) was killed and three other persons slightly injured when a motor car overturned and…

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South Maitland Railways. Protest Against Resumption

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 1

A conference was held at West Maithand Wednesday to discuss the proposed resumpt on of the South Maitland railway line by the State…

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Heavy Damages. Injuries to Girl by Motor

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 3

In the Adelaide Civil Court a case in which Marjorie Florence Evans (an infant), by Ernest Drummond Evans (her father) sued A. A. Edwards, a…

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Fatally Injured. Motor Tragedies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 16

While a relieving constable at Rooty Hill was returning from Penrith on Saturday night the motor cycle he was riding collided with a…

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Mr. H. G. Wells' Forecast. Railways Scrapped in A.d. 2424

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 7

Are railways to be scrapped in the near future? Mr. H. G. Wells, writing in the February issue of "The Strand…

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London's Millions. Strikeridden Again. Trams Stopping. London, March 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 5

Consequent on the strike of tram-waymen and busmen ordered by the Transport Workers' Union, London's millions will have to get to work…

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Motor Test. Performance by Overland Cars

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 11

One of the finest demonstrations of the perfection of the modern car was successfully completed on Thursday by five Overland cars of standard…

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Motors in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 March 1924 · page 4

Shortly after midday on Saturday, a motor omnibus mid a motor lorry came into collision at the intersection of Church and Ban[?]eld streets, West…

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