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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

4,025 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 63 of 202

Motor Bus Over Embankment Man Killed, Several People Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 3

As the result of a motor bus capsizing on the Holmesville-road, Newcastle district, at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, one man was killed, and five…

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Motor Train Service Commences on

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 4

Additional service by means of rail motor will be introduced between Muswellbrook and Merriwa on Monday next. The news will be received…

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A Great Nile Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 2

Important industrial developments in the Sudan are to be carried out by a group of British financial and engineering firms for the Sudanese…

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No Royal Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 3

In spite of the preaching of hate and the gospel that seeks to brand every man as a crook who has got ahead of the mass, most of the men…

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Grand Trunk Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 2

Search where you will, you will find no highway in the whole world so romantic as the Grand Trunk Road of India…

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Motor Sports a Spenldip Day's Ofting in View

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 1

The local Motor Cycle sports will take place on Saturday. May 16. and entries for the various events close on Friday, 8th inst…

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Motor Car Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 4

A sensational accident occurred in George Street Singleton on Friday, Mrs. Charles Saxon, of the Travellers' Rest Hotel, Hexham, who way driving a Rugby…

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Motoring Notes. Double Clutching. Its Intricacies Expanded

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 4

Not a few motor writers emphasise to the amateur that the only really scientific way of attaining silent gear changing of all speeds…

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£ 1,500 CLAIMED. Hancock Bros. v. South Maitland Railways

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 7

The above case came before Mr.. Justice Ferguson at the Maitland Circuit, Court and evidence was. concluded last night…

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Cessnock Motor Cycle Club. The Reliability Trial. Three Riders Successful

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 2

During last week-end a severe test was given those members of the Cessnock Motor Cycle Club who look part in the reliability trial from Cessnock…

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City Railway Protest Against Bridge and Main Roads' Levies

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 6

The city rate was fixed at 3½ in the & on the unimproved capital value, being the same rate as last year, by the City Council on Thursday…

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Orange Aeroplane Crash Further Particulars

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 8

In connection with the aeroplane crash at Orange on Wednesday afternoon (details of which are published on the first page of this issue), it has…

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Main Roads Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 4

Speaking at Mulbring, the Hon. W. Bennett, M.L.A., stated that the Main Roads Act passed by the present Government would do much for…

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No 'Royal Road

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 3

In spite of the preaching of hate and the gospel that seeks to brand every man as a crook who has got ahead of the mass, most of the men…

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Main Roads. Time Payment System

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 7

The Main Roads Roads Board has instituted a system of time-payment in its dealings with municipalities. A communication on the above…

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Aeroplane Hearse Pilot Carried to Inter Ment Place

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 4

London, Monday.— An aeroplane hearse has been used for the first time to convey a dead man to a cemetery. George Powell, an air pilot, who was…

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Lucky Escape. Motor Lorry Overturns. on the Seaham Road

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 9

A motor lorry containing seven passengers capsized on the Seaham road late on 24th ult., and although three of the passengers were pinned…

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Shocking Aeroplane Tragedy Man and Woman Burned to Death

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 1

A mail and woman were literally roasted alive in an aeroplane smash in a paddock adjoining the ring at Orange Showground on Wednesday…

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Main Roads. Kurri and Cessnock. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 5

Mr. Lindsay, shire engineer, to-day reported that he was going into the matter of the reconstruction and maintenance of the train roads between…

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Fall From Train. Right Arm Severed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 3

When the Maitland to Newcastle train was passing under the high-level bridge near Honeysuckle Station on Sunday afternoon an elderly man,…

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