Salvage From Roads Magnetised Bumper Bars
Experiments were recently conducted by the Melbourne Tramway Board with a sedan car. equipped with a magnetised humper-bar fitted about…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
248 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 13
Putting Back the Clock Its Effect on Sunday's Train Services
The alteration in the Eastern summer-time arrangements to come into force on Sunday next, when clocks have to be put back…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nation's Transport System Threatened by Shortage of Motor Parts Action Necessary
The shortage of repair materials and spare parts in Australia Is becoming serious in the automotive transportation field, and unless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hartigan to Remain As Head of Railway Commissioners
The plan to set up a Board of five Railway Commissioners has been abandoned by the State Government. The present Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage by Bad Motor Fuel
The N.R.M.A. engineers report increasing damage to motor vehicle engines through the use of bad fuel. Mr. J. Fielder, chief engineer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fell Under Tram Woman Dies From Injuries
SYDNEY.—Falling under a [?] while on her way to a city theatre, Mrs. Christina Amelia Doyle, aged 53 years, mother of seven children had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Deterioration of Roads
A disturbing report of the condition of roads in the south-western suction of New South Wales has been received by the N.R.M.A. from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Speed Limits
The chief of the Police Traffic Branch, Superintendent Ross, said that National security Regulations prescribing a 40 mlies an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Harbor Bridge Eleven Years Old A Costly Beauty
The Sydney Harbour Bridge was 11 years old last week. The Fast year has been an expensive one for the Bridge, for since the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Private Motoring Restrictions
A suggestion in the press that private motoring may eventually be eliminated unless the rubber situation improves was attacked by the general…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vegetables in Railway Gardens
Vegetable beds, instead of flower gardens, will shortly be a [?]tare of railway stations throughout NSW. The Railway Commissioner (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Transport for School Children
The President of Jemalong Shire Council (Cr. G. H. Griffith) is calling a meeting of all persons interested in the proposal to establish a motor bus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Staff Shortage
The Director of Manpower (Mr. Wurth said that the position in the railway service is most [?] No man who is still capable of doing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Tram's Interfere with Radio Reception
Because of slower running and dim lighting, owing to the [?]out regulations, Sydney trams are using less power and this is resulting in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Waste Paper Collection Street Receptacles Increase Supply Council Arranges to Cart Bales to Railway
At the meeting of the local Municipal Council last Thursday night the acting overseer of works, Mr. C. J. Press, in reporting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Worthless Tyres
Motorists are warned by the N.R.M.A. that some unscrupulous tyre repairers are retreading worthless tyres and passing them on as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tourist Road Travel to Cease
Tourist travel by motor vehicles is to be stopped entirely in N.S.W. from the end of this month. This was announced during the week by the Director of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorists' Battery Problem
The N.R.M. engineers declare that motorists are making a mistake in running their engine for a little while every week with the object of keeping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Repairs Referred to Shire Engineer
The necessity for about one and, a half chains of metalling to be placed on the road in the vicinity of Sheales property, Back Creek, was refefred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wom An's Noble. Death Jumped From Train to Save Baby (By Wire) Sydney
A message from Melbourne stutes: Mrs. Marjorie Ellen Harris, aged 33 years, of Mildura was fatally injured when slip jumped from a train, in…
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