Motors & Motoring News and Notes From N.r.m.a. "Petrol Savers"
A word of warning to the motoring public to be careful of so-called petrol saving devices is issued by the N.R.M.A. The chief engineer of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
303 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 3 of 16
Motor Accident On Bulli Pass
When the brakes of a car failed coming down Bulli Pass on Saturday morning five persons had narrow escapes. The car jumped out of gear…
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Motor tyre thieves are operating on the South Coast. At 1.30 a.m. on Saturday morning Night watchman Brown found the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1,000,000 a Mile World's First Underground Railway Celebrates Its Jubilee
The world's first tube railway celebrated its Jubilee last December. It is fifty years since Edward the Seventh, then Prince of Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Evils in Road Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Research into road accident show that types of accidents occur in "waves" which are not confined to one part of the State, but to the…
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[?] Tuesday at Wollongong, the [?]uty Coroner, Mr. S. R. Musgrave [?] an inquest into the circumstan[?] surrounding the death of Rudolph…
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On being interviewed recently, the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, was asked whether his Department had taken any action in…
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In addition to the excursion tickets issued every week-end for travel between any two stations wholly within the Tourist Area, there will be an…
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For some years, the authorities in various American cities have [?]en keening a systematic record of all skid marks left on the streets after…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →They Walked to Death. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Road accidents in January showed an unexpected turn for the worse amongst pedestrians. More than one hundred walked across the roads in…
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In addition to the excursion tickets issued every week-end for travel between any two stations wholly within the tourist area, there will be an…
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Mr. W. Davies, M.L.A., has received the following from Mr S. R. Henderson secretary Department of Main Roads:—…
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Mr. W. Davies, M.L.A. has received a communication to the following effect from the Department of Main Roads: -- Further to my conversation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Skilful Driver (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
A skilful driver has been defined by the Road Safety Council as the driver who could take advantage of the speeds built into the cars of to-day…
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Road accidents in January showed an unexpected turn for the worse amongst pedestrians. More than one hundred walked across the roads in…
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Chargeman Bill Nixon is still on top speed round Loco, each shift. It is believed that he is to be given the task of ruining. Musso's Fleet down,…
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The inner tube of a motor tyre is damaged far less frequently than the outer cover. This lends to the harmful practice by many owners of motor…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Are Country Motorists Reckless? (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Although there were only 2118 accidents in country towns and rural areas last year against 8188 in the ed in those accident totalled 242…
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