Federal Road and Hospital Payments
The distribution of the petrol tax and the subsidy given by the Federal Government to the public hospitals, were a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Altered Train TimeTables
On Monday, October 3, a mall train will leave for Sydney at 6.5 p.m. On the same day, the day passenger train will arrive in Forbes at 7.36 instead…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£30 Damage to Motor Car
A motor car was slightly damaged in Lachlan Street on Saturday afternoon, which struck by a motor lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil Burning Railway Engines Not Popular
Although oil storage tanks have been erected at several inland centres and oil burning engines have many advantages over…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheel Testing at British Motor Laboratory
This picture shows a motor vehicle road wheel being tested at the British Motor Industry Research Association's Laboratory. In tills universal testing machine the values of strains in various parts of the wheel are being obtained. Evidence indicates that stress-values up to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£40 Damages Against Bus Proprietor Sequel to Smash on Inchgower Road
A COLLISION between an omnibus and a motor lorry on the Bogan Gate Road, near Inchgower, on March 11, resulted in Carl Reinhart Hohnberg, 'bus proprietor, having to pay £40 damages to Noel Bentick, of Forbes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Busi[?]ss Changes Hands
The well-known business of Eugowra Motors, conducted for the past ten years by Messrs A. McLachlan and J. Cockram at Eugowra, changed hands…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →High Railway Officials Arrested (By Wire) Sydney
Railway detectives claim to have uncovered a big racket in Government building materials in the Lithgow district. They have questioned a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Men to Have Say
The Victorian Premier, Mr. T. Hollway, announced that an advisory panel would help the Government to run petrol rationing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Byron Should have Driven on Ungarie Roads
Lord Byron, author of the poem, "The Ocean," never had the nerve racking experience of motoring over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Railway Workers' and Nationalisation
"Thousands of adult railway workers in England get only £4/12/6 a week. They have been pressing for a rise for 18…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Condobolin to Forbes Main Road 377 to be State Highway?
The Main Roads Board has been asked by the Lachlan Regional Committee to raise the status of Main Road 377 to that of a State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fast Diesel Unit to Replace Steam Train on Coota-Cargelligo Line
Commencing on Monday next, 24th October, a new Two Unit Diesel train will commence running on the railway from Cootamundra to Lake Cargelligo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train and Motor Truck Collide Two Men Seriously Injured
Eugowra people were shocked to hear on Wednesday that Mr. Neville Banham, of Rylstone, had been injured in a level-crossing accident…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aluminium Funnel for British Railways' Steamer
An interesting exhibit at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition which opened recently at Olympia, London, was an aluminium alloy funnel, the funnel is fabricated for the new British Railways' streamlined Cross Channel steamer the "T.S.S. Brighton." The weight-saving of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SKIDDED 97Ft. - Yet Doing Only 35 M.P.H! Motor Cyclist Fined For Negligent Driving
TN an attempt to avoid a collision, a motor cycle which left skid marks for 97 feet, and then knocked a car sideways for three feet, was only travelling at "about 35 miles per hour." The story of this rather unique…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Weather Stops Parachute Jump Exhibition at Forbes Aerodrome
Bad weather prevented stunt parachutist Brian Musson from making an attempt on the Australian parachute jump record at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cowra Road
On Wednesday 19th October, the Cowra Road Methodist Sunday School Picnic was held on the property of Mr. G. H. Pereira…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lachlan Shire Road Work Tenders Accepted
At the usual monthly meeting of the Shire Council, held on Friday, 14th inst., the following tenders, as recommended by the tenders…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Worse Than Rabbits" Motor Cyclists Denounced
"Police should take Immediate action to stop motorcyclists using the main streets, particularly on Sundays, as a speedway."…
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