New Motor Engine
All Australian engineer well versed in automobile engine practice recently returned from a visit to America, where he states that he…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
932 stories in Murray's papers · page 22 of 47
The French Railway Strike. Regarded as Virtually Over
A Paris correspondent says that the Minister for Works regards the railway strike as virtually defeated. All the leaders have been gaoled, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Run Down by Train. Three Dead One Injured. Perth
A woman named Mrs. Annie Thornton was driving in a spring cart with her six months' old baby, a 4-year old child and two step daughters at East Armadale,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Preference to Soldiers. Dismissals From Railway Service. Sydney
The Railway and Tramway Service Association is much concerned at the action of the Railway Commissioners in putting off two employes with six and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Protecting in Victoria Railway to Be Guarded Melbourne
Extraordinary precautions are to be taken by the Railway Commissioners to ensure safe travelling for the Prince on the Victorian lines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring Notes. Mulcting the Motorist
The motor vehicle, in Australia at least, is treated in a curious fashion, as also are its owners and users. It is regarded as a means of securing revenue by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gang of Motor Thieves. Wholesale Robberies. Sydney
"There was a regular gang of them, said Sergeant Spyer, police prosecutor, when Frederick Irvine Steele (23), George Brown (22), Ronald William Ford (19)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pillaging on Railways Regarded As a Matter of Course. Sydney
Today, the manager of a well known city firm stated that goods consigned to various parts of N.S.W. by rail continue to he pillaged. Apparently the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French Railway Strike. Paris
The French railway strike is both moribund and absurd. The missing secretaries are issuing abjurations from their hiding places to the men to stand firm. Arrests…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Scandals Bid Fair to Eclipse Wheat Scandals What the Country Paid for Joy Riding. Sydney
Mr. Lang, the Treasurer, said since he bad been Treasurer he had made number of discoveries about the way in which past Ministers had used State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Bridge on Fire
What might have been a serious railway accident was averted by the promptness of the driver on the Sydney to Albury express on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Hay-deniliquin Railway. Deniliquin Council Sympathetic
At last week's meeting of the Deniliquin Council a letter was read from the Shire Clerk, Waradgery Shire, stating that he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Irish Unrest. Motor Marauders Amongst the Farmers
Armed bands are motoring through Ireland, compelling the farmers to give up their farms. There have also been many fresh attacks on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Fire Engine. Officially Installed at Corowa. Demonstration on Thursday Afternoon
At the invitation of the Deputy Mayor (Ald. Teague) a number of prominent citizens and the public generully, assembled at the are station on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.s.w. Railways
The report of the Railway Commissioners fur the quarter ending March 30th, states good work is being done in widening tracks for the electrification…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Train Rams Mixed Two Waggons Wrecked. Brisbane
While a mixed train was standing on the main line at Gundah, Queensland, a cattle train dashed into it. The two leading cattle waggons were totally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Station Improvements
The Albury railway station is now being improved by providing greater, facilities for dealing with the increased passenger and goods traffic. The extension to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Preference in Railways
The Government is to be asked to repeal certain sections of the Preference to Soldiers' Employment Act owing to objections which have been raised by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dissatisfied Railwayman Those Who Enlisted. Sydney
The N.S.W. State Cabinet has decided that railway employes who enlisted should receive the monetary value of their accrued leave, which was due at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Runaway Railway Trucks Adelaide, W ednesday
Fifteen loaded trucks, which formed part of a goods train at Monarto South station, South Australia, ran away during shunting operations. After…
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