Motorists Travel Faster To-day Better Roads and Engines Mean Faster Speeds
According to "The What, Why and How of the New Mobiloil," a booklet recently issued by the Vacuum Oil Company Pty. Ltd., motor cars are…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
825 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 42
ROAD v. Rail Reduced Rail Freights for Yarrawonga
Early in the week Messrs. Middleton and Nimmo, of the Railways Department, visited Yarrawonga, and interviewed most of the business people…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Deadly Level Crossing Causes Five Deaths. Train Crashes Info Car
A level crossing, one mile and a half on the Melbourne side of Werribee, between Werribee and Laverton, was the scene, on Sunday, of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Truck Weight Limit Action by Railway Users' League Railway Feeders Protected
At a recent meeting of the Corowa and Wahgunyah Railway Users' League a discussion took place in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rainfalls on East-west Railways. Serious Washaways Take Place. MELBOURNE, Thursday Night
Traffic between West Australia and the Eastern States is interrupted as a result of serious washaways on the East-West line. Traffic will probably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Serious Tram Collision Twenty-Five Passengers Injured. SYDNEY, Thursday Night
Over 25 people were injured, six of them, being taken to hospital, as the result of a collision between two trams, at Marrickville, to-night. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Year's Motor Fatalities. Metropolitan Record. SYDNEY, Friday Noon
During last year, 239 persons were killed as the result of motor accidents in the metropolitan area. 50 fatalities being due to victims…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →50,000 New Motorists
Sales of motor cars throughout Australia last year numbered about 80,000, and, assuming that 30,000 old cars in use were scrapped in that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Money for Roads New Agreement. Additional Tax Proposed
Unanimous decisions to discontinue the existing Federal Aid Roads Agreement from June 30 and to make it now agreement were made at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robbery at Yarrawonga Railway Station Entered. Safe Blown Open
A sensation was caused at Yarrawonga on Friday morning when the stationmaster (Mr. Laffan) discovered that the railway station had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Riding on Petrol Tank New Menace on Roads
A new menace has appeared on the roads, especially during recent weeks. This is the practice Indulged in by motor-cyclists of riding on the petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hillston-roto Railway Construction Work Commenced. Married Men Only So Far Employed
During the past lew weeks a miniature township has sprung up adjoining the new railway construction, and although the whole of the necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Telegrams. Motor Car Fatality. Airman Killed While Trying to Avoid Sheep
Swerving to avoid a flock of sheey which were crossing the road, a motor car driven by Aircraftsman Hare Williams (33), a member of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor-cycle Mishaps Motor-cyclist Thrown
Jomes Dominiquez was thrown from a motor-cycle while racing on the Junee showground on Sunday,and was taken to hospital unconscious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Car Overturns Near Shepparton
When Mr. P. Shaw was returning from Shepparton to his home along the Shepparton-Benalla road with his three young daughters and two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Losses Definition of F Term. Interest on Capital Included
Referring to recent statements that despite talk of raffway losses, no defic[?] had been incurred or were likely to be incurred on [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Aid Roads Board to Be Abolished
THE Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) announced last week that the Commonwealth had agreed to abolish the Federal Aid Roads Board, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Worlds Fastest Light Aeroplane 165 M.p.h. by Tiger Moth
SHORTLY before dawn on Saturday (15th), a large crowd of R.A.A.F. officers and others interested in aviation gathered at Point Cook to watch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Gauges Details of the Revised Estimates
DETAILS of the revised estimate of the cost of unifying the gauges of the Commonwealth, prepared by the railway commissioners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways News Bulletin Another Comprehensive "Reso" Tour
THE Railways Commissioners have concluded arrangements for a tour of the "Reso" train through the Goulburn Valley and north-eastern…
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