Hit by Golf Ball While in Tram Man Seeks Damages Sydney
The hearing was adjourned in the District Court to-day in the case in which Cyril Thomson claimed damages for injuries received when he was…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Open Road is Danger
On the evidence of the road accident figures for the first few months, it is likely that 1940 will go down in history as the year in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pillion Rider’s Death Police Unable to Trace Motorist Melbourne
Stating that the action of the driver of the car was disgraceful, the Coroner (Mr. Tingate. P.M.) recorded an open finding at an inquiry to-day into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Aerodrome
Work is proceeding satisfactorily at the aerodrome, and one of the runways is nearly covered with gravel. Mr. inspector O'Neill, of the Civil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Chevrolet Much Improved Performance In Road Test
Few cars in the lower-priced field claim to have reached [?] high degree of flexibility and comfort that is so evident this [?] in the new Chevrolet Ridemaster de luxe models. For ease [?] handling, smart acceleration, and comfortable touring they [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Maude Bridge Who Shall be the Constructing Authority? Waradgety Shire Discussion
At yesterday's meeting of the Waradgery Shire Council, there being a full attendance of councillors, a letter was received from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Railways Melbourne
For the first time since the coal strike began, firewood was used as fuel in fire engines of a number of goods trains on country services…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Import Restrictions' Motor Vehicle Chassis
The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) made the following announcement in Canberra on April 12. 1910: "The Commonwealth Government…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bishop Defends Miners "Have Real Grievance" Railway Workers Down Tools SYDNEY--Thursday
Despite the fact that 25 railway workers ceased work on the construction of a new siding at the dump of duff coal on the pithead at Neath…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manures for Farmers Transport on Railways Mr. Bruxner’s Promise Sydney
When the coal strike made it necessary to curtail transport services, the despatch of superphosphates to country areas was restricted for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Curtailments of Train Services in Victoria Melbourne
Further curtailments in passenger train services will be enforced by next Monday, when Bendigo and some other centre will have only one train in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Curtailment of Train Services in Victoria
Further curtailments” in passenger Monday. April 29. when Bendigo and train services will lie enforced by some other centres will have only one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →27 Killed in American Train Smash Little Falls (N.y.), April 20
Twenty-seven persons were killed and 100 injured when portion of the Lake-Shore Limited Express, speeding between New York and Chicago, left the rails during a rainstorm. The Limited comprised 16 coaches, of which the locomotive and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Killed by Tram Melbourne
The identity of q woman knocked down and killed by a tram at the intersection of Simpson st. and Victoria parade. East Melbourne, on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Successful British Airmen in France New Motored Observation Balloon
Top Left: Members of a R.A.F. squadron on the Wqstern Front which is credited with having brought down nine enemy planes, examine a captured German aerial machine-gun. These four pilots were concerned in two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclist Dies in Crash Melbourne
A motor cyclist, Edmund Thomas, aged 23, of Bokhara road, Caulfield. died in an ambulance on the way to St. Vincent’s Hospital to-day. Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stavanger Aerodrome Bombed Again London, April 22
According to an Air Ministry communique, (Planes of" the R.A.F. again bombed and machine gunned the aerodrome at Stavanger last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →These Cause Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council)
Most unusual accident of the month is that of injuries caused to a woman through a cauliflower falling from a truck and smashing the windscreen of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Employment on Railways and Coal Strike Economy
No definite policy is being followed in regard to curtailment of employment on the railways in the economy enforced by the cord strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fewer New Motor Vehicles Registered Sydney
At the end of March there were 324,753 motor vehicles registered in N.S.W., a decrease of 112 compared with the registrations at the same time last…
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