Trying Ordeal in Tunnel Electric Train Breaks Down
Nearly 1000 people travelling to the northern suburbs had a trying experience late on Wednesday afternoon when an electric…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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SUNSTROKE Putty—Singleton Road Worker SINGLETON
Singleton Ambulance has made three trips this week to bring Injured persons from the Putty-Singleton road. The longest of tie trips was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill "Blockade" Strikers' Threat. May Declare All Roads "Black."
An attempt to blockade Broken Hill, by declaring all roads to the town "black," may be made by the Australian Railways Union…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Trucks on Goods Train Destroyed Set Alight by Bushfire
A bushfire set alight to two trucks in a goods train near Bogan's Creek on Wednesday. The trucks and their contents were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Pack Train" Economy A.S.C. Training Square Meals for Our Troops
A saving of £200 a day for each 10,000 men in training was made by the military authorities when they introduced the daily "pack train"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tea or Polluted Water Men on Main Road Works SYDNEY
According to the secretary of the United labourers’ Union, Mr. McNamara, if members of his union on main roads job morning tea they will have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Express Trial Run of New Train To-morrow Quick Service to Sydney
The Cessnock express train will have a trial run to-morrow morning. It is timed to leave Cessnock at 6.30 a.m. and arrive in Sydney at 10.11…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Prices. Move to Prevent Excessive Increase
Because a number of agents have announced that motor car prices will shortly rise, the Commonwealth Prices Commission is investigating costs in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many Failures. Motor Car Inspection Tests, SYDNEY
The Commissioner of Road Transport, Mr. C. N. Neale, said to-day that a total of 13,430 motor vehicles failed to pass the compulsory inspection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Picnic
The annual railway picnic was hold at the Old Bar beach on Monday, January 15, and a record number of picnickers and their friends…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist Fined Crossing Collision NEWCASTLE
On November 16, Alexander Henry Thomas Palmer, of Carrington, drove a motor car in Union-street, Hamilton South and at the intersection of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Motor Mechanic and Bushranger From Victoria" the Diggers Are at It Again
Australian Diggers in England are at it again. The "Evening Standard," London, has published a front-page…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Vehicle Registrations Increase During 1939
Motor vehicles registered in New South Wales at the end of December totalled 328,554, an increase of 1.7 per, cent, over the total of 322,940…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proposed Cut in Imports Motor Car Industry
The Australian motor industry is of tho opinion that the proposed cut is imports of American and Canadian automobiles is on the drastic side,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sulky Wrecked Collision With car Motorist Fined
When police visited the seem of a collation between a motor car at a snaky on the New England Highway two and a half miles on the Newscaster…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain Does Wonders Export of Motor Vehicles
The motor industry of Great Britain, although to-day largely employed to making aircraft, munitions, etc,, has done wonders in maintaining her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor WOULD Labour’s Part In Building Of Motor Cars
The subject of making automobile cah[?] and [?] in Australia has been much is the [?] during recent works, and as various [?] the employment which is likely to be provided by the establishment of such an enterprise in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →First Pay Railway Strikers A.R.U Action Sydney
The first pay to railway men ca strike on the Broken Hill line will he delivered to-morrow by the union organiser, Hr. J. Ferguson,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision Near Long Bridge
Two women and two children escaped with minor injuries when a Homeville motor bus and a utility truck collided on the West Maitland…
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