Road Safety Lancashire Experiment a Great Help
"I would like to congratulate you on having given a greater lift to the cause of road safety than it has yet received from any…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
2,677 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 134
In a Tangle German Railways Accidents Increase Munich. Feb. 3
The German railway department, for the first time, admits that the South German lines are unable to maintain the passenger schedule…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor [?] World [?] Many Hazards African Transcontinental Car Record Over Desert Tracks
It is not so many years ago that a French mechanised expedition provided front page news by negotiating sections of the dreaded Sahara Desert with Renault cars, equipped…
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According to the latest figures received from America by the N.R.M.A., it is estimated that the world…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fell From Train
George Selwyn Kirwan, 39, Bream-street, Coogee, was found beside the railway line near Kotara, two and a half hour after he had fallen from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bicycle Club Road Race At Greta
The Greta Cycling Club conducted a six miles road race on Saturday after noon. Result: - W. Williamson, 3min. lOsec, 1; W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fell From Mail Train Man Found Near Line at Kotara
George Selwood Kirwan, aged 39, of Brean-street, Coogee, Sydney, fell from the Moree mail train near Kotara railway station about 3 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Vehicles in Germany Berlin, Feb. 5
Colonel Von Schell, Transport Com-missioner, has announced that 270 of the 335 types of motor vehicles manu-factured in Germany will go out of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Motor Torpedo Boats Ordered Construction at Cockatoo Dockyard
The Federal Government has placed an order for six motor torpedo boats, and will place an order for six more as soon as tests of a new type…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tragedy at Antiene Railway Employee Killed
Leonard Barnes (18), railway employee, Quirindi, was killed at Antiene railway gates late on Thursday night. It is thought that, after attending the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Load of Motor Tyres Stolen Thieves Climb High Wall. Sydney
During the week-end thieves climbed a high wall and stole a motor lorry, loaded with more than £170 worth of tyres, from Advanx Tyre…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Trespass Tried to Board Goods Train
Richard Lawrence Newman (27) was fined 30/, or three days' gaol, when he pleaded guilty in the West Maitland Police Court to-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Long Road "Won't Be Back Again" Shot Himself
Lloyd Ranson (22), died on January 4 from a gunshot wound in the head, wilfully self-inflicted the same day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stock Travelling Other than by Road BATHURST P. P. Board Imposes Levy
Bathurst Pastures Protection Board decided at last meeting to impose a levy of 6d on all stock travelling other than by road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Safety Driven, How High Do You Fly? Here's a Conception of Speed for the Airminded?
How high do you fly when driving? No, this is not a question from a comic strip; nor is it a radiogram from the planet Mars. It is just a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Axe Murder Motor Mechanic Charged Tenterfield Crime Tenterfield
At the police Court last night, John Trevor Kelly, 24, a motor mechanic, was charged with having murdered Marjorie Constance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Accidents Double The American Rate SYDNEY
Owing to the widespread safety campaign in the United States, fatalities in which motor vehicles were involved during 1938 showed a decline of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Truck on Fire Men Have Narrow Escapes
Two men had narrow escapes from serious injury when the benzine tank of a burning truck exploded at Greaford last Friday. They were Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armidale Council's £111,000 Programme Purchase of Aerodrome Site Included
An ambitious programme of municipal improvements, extending over the next two years, has been adopted by the Armidale Municipal Council…
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