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Railways, roads & transport, 1935

2,093 stories in Murray's papers · page 35 of 105

Tragedy in Italian Motor Race Rome, April 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 3

Tragedy marred the 1000 miles motor road race from Brescia to Rome and back, which, is one of the most strenuous courses in the world, and…

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Travelling Dental Clinics Old Railway Cars to Be Used

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 2

The Minister for Health (Mr. Fitzsimmons) said, during a visit to Wollongong Hospital, that it was proposed to fit up old railway Pullman cars as…

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Child Tramps Who Roam a Continent Homeless, Jobless, Unwanted

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 6

THE financial depression in America has had one remarkable result. Hundreds of boys and girls, little more than children, have been driven…

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Motors Testing Spark Plugs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 28

A time-honored but very satisfactory method of testing a suspected spark plug is to place it with the ignition lead connected, on the outside…

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Will Not Pay Cost of New Railway South Australian Opposition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 15

"South Australia will not spend any of its own money on extending the railway from Red Hill to Port Pirie, as the Commonwealth suggests," said…

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Trampled to Death. Bahrein

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 4

Hearing that he was about to distribute alms 2000 people gathered around the house of a Persian merchant, and thronged the narrow…

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Interstate Motoring

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 4

Motorists who intend visiting other States during the Easter holidays are reminded by the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. S. A Haddocks…

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Motor Notes Leakage at Valve Covers

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 4

Sometimes with overhead valve engines there is an annoying leakage of oil from the edges of the valve cover plates. Usually the cover is of…

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Fatal Motor Car -- Cycle Collision

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 2

Jack Minds, aged 30 years, a carpenter at Hume Reservoir, was knocked down by a motor car on Tuesday evening and killed instantly. He was…

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Serious Train Derailment. 14 Trucks Involved Mishap Near Wangaratta Expresses Held Up Motor Truck Wrecked Three Men Injured: Severad Sheep Killed

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 1

Crashing into a goods train it a level crossing about a mile from Bowser, near Wangaratta, at 4 p.m. yesterday, a motor…

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Holidays Take Toll of Lives Six Killed Separate Accidents Toll of the road West Australian Fatalities PERTH, Friday

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 4

Between 10 and 10.30 o’clock last night a motor car containing. live persons, travelling between Yarlcol and Waroona, overturned, and…

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Proposed New Railway South Australia’s Objections Adelaide. Thursday

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 3

South Australia’s reply to the Federal Government’s latest Port August Red Hill railway scheme has been sent to Dr. Page. The letter…

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Killed by Train Youth’s Death Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 1

When he was talking with friends on the. platform of the Clarkefield station to-day, John Edward Moore, 20. farmer, or Clarkefield, was drawn…

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Bicycles on Roads Dangers of Wet Black Paving (To the Editor)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 1

Sir—Cannot something be done to curb the cyclist pest in the main streets of Albury? Often three or four. cyclists are to be seen riding…

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Motor Car Overturns Occupant Killed Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 1

A sedan car, travelling, towards Sydney, overturned on. the Great Western road at Emu Plains to-day, with the: result that John McManus,…

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Big New York Fire Hundreds Overcome Smoke Jn Underground Railway Many Firemen Prostrated New York, April 21

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 1

One hundred firemen and several hundred underground and railway passengers were overcome by acrid smoko today from a…

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Unknown Man Killed Victim of Motor Car Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 1

Police so far have failed to identify the man who was knocked down and fatally injured by a motor car m Anzac Parade, Moore Park, last night,…

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Eleven People Hurt Motor Car and Lorry Collide Three in Serious Condition Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 1

Eleven persons were injured in a collision between a motor car and a motor-lorry in Western road, Wentworthville, last night The…

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Amy Mollison’s Car Kills Motor Cyclist Family in Holiday Smash Escape Unhurt London, April 19

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 2

Mrs,. Amy Mollison (formerly Johnson), the well known avlatr[?] who was spending the week-end with her parents at Bridlington, was…

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Man and Woman Hurt Motor Oar Smashes Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 1

Joseph Fest, 27, of Drummoyne, and Nellie Paino, 21, of Lakemba, were injured early to-day when a cai-in which they were riding crashed…

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