Big Drive. for Road Safety
The appalling death toll of the road during the Christmas and New Year holidays has caused an awakening of public interest in the need…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
1,604 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 81
Road Safety and the Highway Code (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)
The Minister for Transport and President of the Road Safety Council Of N.S.W. recently had . published a code comprising information for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Deficit N.S.W. RAILWAYS Indication by Witness £750,000 Mentioned Sydney
A deficit of over £750,000, instead of a surplus of £ 30,000, may be experienced on the railways for the current financial year, ending…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motored Over the Sahara Cape Town, Jan. 23
After driving 10,290 miles from London in 32 days, two English motorists, Messrs. H. E. Symons and H. B. Browning, crossed the Sahara Desert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →40 Injured When Two Trams Collide Wild Confusion Follow Many Women Hysterical Sydney
Two crowded trams collided in Parramatta road, near Camperdown, to-day, and 40 people were injured. The front of one tram and the rear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion at Railway Workers’ Camp Remains a Secret Sydney
Police have not yet been able to ascertain whether the explosions of gelignite at a railway gangers’ camp near Captain’s Flat, in the Queanbeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety the Highway Code
The Minister for Transport and President of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales recently had published a code comprising such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Demands on Railways in Emergency More Than on Road Services Claim by Counsel Melbourne
That Australian railway systems had to have surplus equipment so that, in a certain eventuality, demands such as had never been made on railways in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Growing Popularity of the Motor Grid
The increasing use of motor transport, particularly the farm lorry and utility truck, in rural areas has hastened the popularity of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dutch Airliner Overshoots Mascot Aerodrome Pilot Blames Ground Staff Sydney
The circumstances under which a Dutch air mail liner overshot Mascot aerodrome by 17 miles, before landing on Wednesday will be subject of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety the Highway Code (Issued by the Road Safety Council)
The Minister for Transport and President of the Road Safety Council of N. S. W. (Col. Bruxner) recently, had published a code comprising such…
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The Minister for Transport and President of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales recently had published a code comprising such…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Laws of the Road. [?] Enforcement Needed
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) said recently that the chief causes of road accidents and irritations to the public were lack of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Toll of the Road. Appalling Figures. SYDNEY, Thursday Night
Between December 23rd and January 1st last, 31 persons were killed and 405 injured. Minister of Transport Bruxner announced to-day. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thirty-one Deaths N.S.W. Road Slaughter Three Weeks of Killing Sydney
Between December 23 and January 14 last 31 persons were killed and 405 injured in road accidents in N.S.W. The figures were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ford V-8 Trucks Help New Guinea Development. Driven by Natives Over World's Most Gruelling Road
When goldfields were opened up in the mountainous interior of New Guinea transport of goods required there proved a difficult problem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Direct Proposed New Border Railway. Premier Stevens Explains Reasons for Cabinet Assent. (S.M. Herald, 24.1.39.)
The New South Government has agreed to the extension of a Victorian branch railway line from Oaklands to Rand, in the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Graziers and the Railways
WE think the graziers of the district, than whom there are no more hospitable hosts or courteous men in the world, made a thoughtless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Tram Accident Forty Passengers Injured. SYDNEY
Colliding with terrific force in Camperdown, two trams telescoped and 40 passengers' were injured. Twenty were admitted to hospital…
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