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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1937

2,293 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 115

Loyalist Troops Still Gaining Ground Rebel Retreat Bombers Set Train Alight Fighting Is Furious London, March 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 1

Loyalists are reported to have regained lost ground on the Malaga front, capturing Monte Delcor, on which peak they have established artillery, dominating Motril,…

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Six Killed Taxi and Tram in Smash Terrific Impact SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 4

Six people, including three children, wore killed in a collision between a taxi cab mid a tram in Botany Road yesterday afternoon…

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HOAXED! Leading Bridge Players Forty Respond Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 1

A systematic practical joker tricked forty of Melbourne's leading bridge players during the Easter holiday. The man, assuming…

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Two Injured Motor Cycle Skidded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 2

Two Maitland district residents were injured when a motor cycle on which they were riding skidded at Hexham…

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Over Cliff Stolen Motor Car NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 8

Three motor cars were reported stolen at Newcastle and Hamilton on Saturday. The remains of one car were found…

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General Motors Assembly Plants Man in Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 3

General Motors have assembly and manufacturing plants in each of the five mainland capital cities—Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne…

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Supreme Penalty Train Wreck in Russia MOSCOW, March 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 1

Following a train wreck on the trans-Caucasus railway in which two Red Army officers were seriously injured and 13 coaches doralied an…

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Car Left Road Family Badly Injured GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 8

Five persons were seriously injured when a car driven by Mr. L.T. Willcocks left the road and crashed into a tree near Broameadows…

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Nine Stitches Motor Cyclist Injured MUSWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 6

As a result of a collision between a motor car and motor cycle T. Franks of Wallsend was admitted to Brentwood Hospital suffering from…

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Struck by Tram

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 8

Alighting from a tram in Baptist-street, Redforn, yesterday. George Butter 13 of Steel-street, Surry Illis was struck by a tram travelling in…

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East Greta Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 4

Mr. B. W. Punch, Labour Candidate for the Went Mail and Municipal Council by-election, during his campaign speech at East Greta…

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French Train Disaster Bordeaux, March 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 1

Ten were killed and 60 injured to-day when the pari[?] express [?] down an embankment into a small stream neat Bax. The…

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Improvement in Injured Victims of Car Crash Tragic Smash at Camberwell Bridge

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 2

An improvement was registered to-day in the condition of all the four injured men who were in the motor car which crashed into…

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Miraculous Escape When Car Leaves Road Occupants Crawl Up 100 Feet Embankment Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 2

Two men had remarkable escapes from serious injury early this morning when a motor car in which they were travelling ran off the Pacific Highway,…

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Explosives Planted in Motor Car American Mayor Critically Injured While Starting Engine (Australian Press Assn. Message) KIRKSVILLE (Missouri)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 1

The Mayor of Kirksville, Mr George Jacobs, was critically injured to-day when the engine of his motor car exploded while he was attempting to start…

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Ironbark Creek Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 6

Advice has been received by Tarro Shire from the Department of Math Reads that fresh tenders had been called for the construction of the stool…

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Caves Road Five Mile Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 9

The N.R.M.A. has been advised that in future there will be no one-way traffic restrictions on the Five Mile Hill leading down to Jo[?]…

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Two Men Killed Riding on Train Roof

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 3

Two men were swept by bridge beams from the roof of a railway meat van, at Dawson's Bridge, a few miles from Taree, late on Friday night, and were…

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Police Injured Tram-Motorbike Smash SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 12

Constable Frank Hume, 31, of Edgecliffe. Esplanade, Seaforth, who received very extensive lacerations and other injuries and Constable Fred…

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Fatal Sm[?] Tram Wrecks Car SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 10

A man was killed and three other people were injured when a motor car and a steam tram collided in Prince's Highway, near Rocky…

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