The Motoring World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Signing Of Petrol Ration Tickets
Albury Banner Wodonga Express and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 12
In an effort to check the growing evil of counterfeit petrol ration tickets, tho Federal Government requires' petrol consumers to endorse…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Opening of Great Southern Railway to Albury 60th Anniversary of Great Event Final Melbourne-Sydney Link
Albury Banner Wodonga Express and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 13
Sixty years ago—on February 4, 1881—one of the most important events in the history of Albury occurred—the opening of the Great Southern Railway to Albury. With the completion of this line to Albury, Melbourne and Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Duplication of Railways
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 2
The scheme adopted by the Government in duplicating the railway line from Sydney to Melbourne has everything to commend it from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Hold-up Washaways on N.S.W. Line SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 7
Railway traffic between Moree and Invcrell has been suspended until further notice. Contact between [?] the south will now be maintained by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Train Traffic
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 February 1941 · page 5
An extra express was required from Albury for Sydney last night[?] [?] an additional express will arrive [?] Albury this morning, conveying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Wrecker Recent Attempt on Bonegilla Line No Fresh Developments
Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 February 1941 · page 2
No fresh developments have occurred in connection with the attempt to wreck a train on the Wodonga-Bonegilla railway line on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →S.E.C. Workers in Road Smash; One Killed MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 February 1941 · page 2
Frederick Franklin, of Stafford st. Abbotsford, one of four State Electricity Supply Department employes who were injured when their car crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Regulation Strike S.A. Railwaymen’s Decision ADELAIDE
Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 February 1941 · page 2
In an attempt to enforce the railwayman’s demands for improved wages and conditions, a mass meeting of the South Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lagoon Bridge Closed
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 4
The bridge over the lagoon in Edwaraes street has been closed against traffic. It is understood that the structure is regarded as unsafe. Probably…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aircraft Engines for United States Motor Industry being Converted for Aeroplane Manufacture
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 3
The first aircraft engines to be made in quantity production in the U.S. by major automobile companies as part of the programme of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Body on Road" Hoax Overworked
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 2
Seen lying on the roadside, apparently in great distress, and taken to Yackandandah by a motorist Samaritan, a man was recognised by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carriages Blown From Bridge London. February 16
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 3
The Berne radio has announced that 22 were killed and many were injured when three carriages on an electric train were blown from a bridge during…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Excursions in March
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 2
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has decided that the next general series of excursion trains will be run during the first week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Are Country Motorists Reckless?
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 4
Also in The Pastoral Times
Although there were only 2118 accidents in country towns and rural areas last year, against 8188 in the County of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Head-on Crash Two Motor Cyclists Killed SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 1
Two men riding a solo motor cycle met instantaneous death this afternoon when their machine collided head-on with a military field…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canberra Aerodrome to Be Re-named Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 2
Canberra aerodrome, headquarters of the Royal Australian Air Force at the Federal Capital, will be known in future as Fairbairn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Evils in Road Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 4
Research into road accidents shows that types of accidents occur in “waves” which are not confined to one part of the State, but to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Hauliers Payment of Compensation MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 6
Under legislation [?] last session, the State Cabinet [?] dealt with the payment of compress[?] to one important grand of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1600 Lighting System for Railway
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 2
A new and comprehensive lighting system installed in the Albury [?] yards at a cost of £1600 was [?] [?] tested last night. [?]…
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