Permits for Road Hauliers
MELBOURNE: Transport officials of five governments have agreed on a system of permits for interstate road…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1955
280 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 14
Two Deaths In Motor Collision
NEWCASTLE: An inquest into the deaths of two Maitland residents, June Helen Burgess Foy, 25, of…
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A train crew was forced to ride on the footplate of a moving train when fire kept them from the cabin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Ran Off Road
A man and his son were injured on Saturday when their car careered off the road into a stormwater channel on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hit by Motor Cycle, Thigh Fractured
Bernadette Saunders, 14, of George-street, Morpeth, fractured her right thigh, and suffered shock yesterday when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclists “Lairising” Say Police
Police had been giving special attention to motor cyclists making undue noise in the city streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Threat By Motorists In Broken Hill
BROKEN HILL: A meeting of motorists, about 500 strong, yesterday threatened to remove number [?] from their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aeroplane Sprays Lucerne Crops at Baerami Creek
For the second time in the history of the area lucerne seed cropswere sprayed from an aeroplane at Baerami Greek on Sunday last. About 200 acres in the area…
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“The time for platitudes, posters and pleas is gone,” said Mr. H. E. Richards, NRMA general secretary,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Passengers Killed by Rebels
RANGOON: Karen rebels killed 32 train passengers in a gun battle on Saturday and carried off 40 young women…
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SYDNEY: A double-decker bus had to be towed from sand at the side of the road near Cook’s River…
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SINGLETON: Five Fordwich people were injured when a utility truck in which they were riding hit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Faint Hope for Shorter Road Route fd Sydney
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Wetherell) told a deputation in Sydney there seemed little immediate prospect of the Kalnura Road being proclaimed a main road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire On Railway Bridge
Maitland Fire Brigade was called out at lunch time to-day to a small fire on an old wooden railway…
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SETTLEMENT of the taxation which interstate road transport proprietors will pay will give stability to their plans, and serious competition with the railway systems may be expected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatigue Is Factor In Road Safety
Last year eleven people were killed and 174 injured on country roads because drivers of vehicles had fallen asleep. This type of road accident is more likely than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’ Leader Road v. Rail Mystery Death Of Woman
SYDNEY: Police are investigation the sudden death of a 63-years-old woman at Helensburgh yesterday…
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GLOUCESTER: Walter Canson, of Craven had to pay compensation £9/16/3, costs £3/18/ and witnesses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints to Motorists
Here are some hints to motorists from the NRMA engineers: Carburettors on the modern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire Road Matters
In the period prior to the Christmas holidays the plant and gangs were used with…
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