Broken Hill Railway Strike Mr Hartigan Will Not Allow Barrier Council to Interfere. Sydney
Singleton Argus · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 6
"I do not recognise the Barrier Industrial Council; it is not a registered trades union organisation." declared the Railway Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eel in Motor Tyre
Singleton Argus · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 4
Several boys at Muswellbrook, after playing, with a tyre off a motor-lorry, threw it into a waterhole at Muscle Creek. Next day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fever Deaths On Roads SYDNEY, [?]
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 4
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Guinea Road Work Held Up
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 8
One of the most needed and most Interesting roads in the world trill not sow be constructed owing to the war. This was to have ma from Wan to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Novel Device. Safety Marker On American Road
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 8
Of th many devices that have been made w provide safety markers on roads for night driving one of the latest that seems…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Holiday Risks. Red Ribbos of Tragedy Road Dancers (issued by the [?]
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 8
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Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Hope for the Motorist
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 2
A constable who had stopped a motorist for dangerous driving and who was taking down the particulars kept putting the point of his pencil in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unknown Man Killed Motor Car Overturns Kerri Kurri
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 7
When a car driven by Mervyn Cox 72, of 115 Hich street West Maitland overturned and rolled for same distance along the roadway at the Hed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Loss of £5,000,000 Strike at Big Motor Works
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 8
While the British automobile Industry is facing up to an upheaval in production and marketing of its products awing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Power of Modern Motor Car Engine
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 8
One of the most important developments In the modem automobile engine Has bees the raising of compression ratios, thereby increasing horsepower developed by about 80 percent without any appreciable increase in weight of power unit…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor World Surprising Fuel Economy Practical Car Tests in England
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 8
Surprising fuel economy results were recently obtained in England during some practical took conducted wish a view to ascertaining what fuel economy could he obtained by driving on the “open and Shu” system a practice which has ambled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bus Off Road
Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 5
No one was injured when the 6.30 a.m. has from Cessnock to West Maitland tan off the road while going down the hill on the Maitland side…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fast Daily Train Service Cessnock-sydney Express Likely
Singleton Argus · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 1
It is probable, that an express train, similar to the Intercity Express, will run from Cessnock to Sydney and return daily, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shots at a Taxi Incident on Paterson Road
Singleton Argus · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 2
Two shots from a pea-rifle were fired at a taxi on the road between East Maitland and Paterson on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Decrease in Road Fatalities Figures for Eleven Months
Singleton Argus · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 1
Figures made available at the week-end, by the Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways, Mr C. M. Neale, show that 518 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car and Lorry Smash Head-on Collision on Moreegurley Road
Singleton Argus · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 3
When a car and lorry met in ar head-on collision about the 10 miles peg on the Moree-Gurley road near Tycannah, William Tramby (18),…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Fall From Tram Sydney
Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 8
James Berry Welsh, 46, of Emmett-street. Crow’s Nest [?] booking [?] in the Department of Railways, collapsed and died after a fall from a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lorry Overturns On Railway Crossing
Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 5
Raymond Collins, 27 of Parramatta road Petersham, was driving a motor lorry over the Hexham railway crossing early this morning when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seriously Injured in Motor Accident
Singleton Argus · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 2
A motoring accident occurred about eight o'clock on Saturday night on the Bulga Road, about two miles from Singleton. Mr George,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Aeroplane Industry Two Thousand Planes to Be Built
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 7
Sir Frederick Stewart has made the statement that two thousand aeroplanes are to be built in Australia. Sir Frederick…
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