OBITUARY. Mrs. John Train
The death occurred quite unexpectedly last night of Mrs. John Train, of Dulwich Hill, mother of Mr. H. R. Train, of Grenfell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Dual Purpose Car Park
Holborn, London, is to have an underground car park which, in times of war, will be a bomb shelter holding 77,000 people. As a car park…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal and the New South Wales Railways
Prior to 1855, when our first railway Hue was opened, the coal trade was almost monopolised by the Australian Agricultural Company, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Vehicle Production
Motor vehicle production in the United States and Canada during 1938 was approximately 2,635,000 cars, and commercial vehicles, according…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Safety Children (issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
School vacation has drawn to a close and many thousands of children throughout the State will be travelling by various means of conveyanee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ford V-8 Trucks Help New Guinea Development Driven By Natives Over World's Most Gr[?]elling Road The Futility of Strikes
When goldfields were opened up in the mountainous interior of New Guinea transport of goods required there proved a difficult problem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Motors
It is with great pleasure and optimism that we release to the public of Grenfell details of the 1939 models produced by the Hudson Motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deficit of £800,000. N.S.W. Railways. Coal Strike Largely to Blame
The report from the. Railway Commissioner (Mr. T. J. Hartigan) presented to Cabinet on Wednesday, stated, that the railway deficit at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Tram Accident. William Riechers Lost His Life
William Heinrich Reichers, aged 71, was well known to many in Condobolin, for he had been in this district a good many years and was highly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclist Crashes Into Truck Escapes With Minor Injuries Parkes Road Accident
Cycling to his home at Daroobalgie, near Forbes, along the Parkes Road shortly before one o'clock on Sunday morning, George A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trucks Crash Head-on Men Seriously Hurt on Grenfell Road Dog Impaled on Starting Handle
One man had a leg so badly shattered that amputation was necessary, another suffered a broken kneecap, and a dog was impaled on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crushed Between Trams Man's Fatal Injuries Came From Condobolin District
Crushed between two frams in George Street. City, on Thursday, Wm Riechers. 71, of Tallebung, near Condobolin, was fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Tape Railway's Ridiculous Request
Many instances of officialdom's red tape methods have been given from time to time, but nothing more ludicrous than the example…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trucks Crash Head-on. Men Seriously Hurt on Grenfell Road. Dog Impaled on Starting Handle
One of the most serious motor smashes that the Grenfell district has ever known occurred on Monday evening when two lorries met…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Cruises
We have been advised by Mr. H. S. Whitehouse (local stationmaster) that the Railway Department are running a cruise, from Sydney to the North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.s.w. Railway Brevities
Last November the goods and live stock tonnage was more than twice as great as that for the previous month (which was affected by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Pan-american Highway
Another section of the Pan-American highway has just been opened. It consists of 100 miles of concrete and asphalt roadway in Peru, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Extensions. No Present Chance of Parkes to Eugowra nor Burcher to Condobolin
Some little time back there was movement, started in Parkes, to urge the construction of a railway line from Parkes fo Eugowra and from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lake Illawarra Entrance Road
Motorists travelling along Prince's Highway between Wollongong and Kiama may be interested in the suggestion advanced by the N.R.M.A. touring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trees As Road Safety Aids
The judicious planting of trees and shrubs on American highways has had a marked effect on road safety, according to a report received by the N.R.M.A…
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