[?]Ks Reach Med. Coast Ns Take Over French Railways, Dromes London, November 12
[?] High Command announces three tank divisions, also motor-units, arrived "without incident" on the French Mediterranean…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
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Claims for Damages. Motors Collide at Corner
In the District Court on Tuesday, before Judge Stacy, Walter Lawrence Aitken, claimed £39/13/2 from George Harry Barton, being the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Progress of the War The Operations in North Africa Allied Paratroops Capture Aerodrome
LONDON, Sunday.—Hundreds of British and American troops, dropped without a hitch, have captured the Bona aerodrome, 50 miles from the Tunisian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's First, Woman Railway Guard
21-year-old Doris Winn, a former milliner's assistant from Acton, London, was the first British woman to take over the important duties of guard on board a London North Eastern Railway passenger train. She staffed her first wartime Job as a railway porter in 1941,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Strafing in Desert Value of Martuba Aerodrome LONDON. November 17
Cairo reports stole that long-range fighters from the newly-won Martuba air base arc starling the dwindling Af[?] Korps as far as El Aghella…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Why Road Work Was Stopped Sydney
Replying to the leader of the Country Party (Mr Bruxner), in the Legislative Assembly today, the Minister for Transport (Mr O'Sulllvan) said It had became necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Passengers' Luggage Should Be Addressed
The necessity for travellers to take better care of their luggage is being stressed by the NSW. Commissioner for Railways (Mr Hartigan). This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Windquran Council Travelling Stock On Roads
Cr. G. T. Lyons (president) and Crs. L. Metcalfe, T. C. Macaw and J. L. priestly attended a meeting of Windouran Shire Council yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collapses in Tram and Dies Ballarat
[?] van Berkel, aged 61, [?] [?], of Burnffray st, collapsed [?] died in the cabin of his tram in Sturt [?] this afternoon. Feeling [?]. he stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rommel's Road to Ruin Alamein to Gambut and Points West CAIRO. Nov. 21
Rommel's road to ruin runs from Alamein to Gambut and points west, says Kenneth Slessor, official Australian war correspondent, In a despatch on the rout…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Travel Permits. Railway Chief’s Statement
Saying that many people, mostly females, applying for priority permits to travel to other States quite fail to realise that such permits were issued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Common Scene in a U.s. Aeroplane Factory
Out they go and in they [?] Scenes like there are continuous at the new aeroplane division plant of the Curliss Wright Co. In foreground skilled workers and inspectors are chocking various parts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Plant May Cease Operations Sydney
Judge O’Mara was told in the Federal Arbitration Court today that a general closing down might occur at the Ford motor plant at Homebush. His Honor had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aussies on the Road to Buna
Diggers in New Guinea pursuing the retreating Japanese on the "track" to Buna…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Motor Traffic Act
In the Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. Harris, P.M., yesterday, two cases of alleged breaches of the Motor Traffic Act were heard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Purchase of Motor Truck Day Labour v. Contract
At Monday's meeting of the Carrathool Shire Council the question, of the purchase of a motor truck for the use of the Council in connection with its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russians Tightening Hold On 25 Trapped German Divisions Speed of Advance Increases Roads Clogged With Fleeing Axis Troops Chaos Threatens Kuban and Caucasus Armies Stalingrad Defenders Dealing Out Punishment General with Drawal Ordered From That Area? London, November 26
With at least 250,000 Axis troops killed, captured, wounded or dispersed, the Russians' week-old offensive increasing in tempo. Their advance has already car[?]ned them 100 miles at some points, and today they continued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Army’s New Fierce Offensive At Kalinin; Nazis Smashed In South Demoralised Axis Forces Retreating Roads Near Stalingrad Jammed With Prisoners LONDON, November 27
While smashing relentlessly and with all the forces available at the demoralised retreating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Seize French Aerodrome LONDON, Nov. 29
The Vichy news agency reports that the Germans have ordered the evacuation of the Is[?]res military aerodrome near Marseilles. German troops have already taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mother and Baby Killed Train Wrecks Bus Perth
Mrs Annie Rice aged 20, of Perth, and her baby son. were killed when a bus in which they were travelling was struck by a train at railway cross…
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