Replacing Motor Vehicles
Following difficulties experienced by some motorists. the NRMA novises business and commercial users of petrol that before they purchase a replacement vehicle,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
591 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 30
Bad Manners on the Road
The NRMA Is receiving an increasing number of complaints of bad manners among motorists, resulting from impatience of drivers of vehicles in good condition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman’s Body on Railway Line Sydney
The badly mutilated body of an elderly woman was found on the railway line at Croydon station tonight. She was Mrs Hilda Gertrude Ethel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Platform Tickets Abolished
SYDNEY, Friday: The decision of the Railway Department, to abolish platform tickets from May 27, is due to the wholesale evasion of fares on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rail Motor Fort Newspapers
This week a trial is being given with running a rail motor from Melbourne on Tuesday and Saturday, for the carriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese Pressure on Chinese Forces Losing Grip Os Important Railway Chungking, May 10
The Chinese High Command has indicated that the Chinese have almost lost their grip on the Peiping-Hankow railway. Two strong Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Control of French Railways LONDON, May 11
The aeronautical correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that the announcement by the, Vichy radio that there will be a drastic curtainment of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Injured In Tram Accident SYDNEY
While crossing a city street this afternoon Mrs Gertrude Burrell 75 a visitor from Blackheath, was struck by a tram and received injuries in the head…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State of Bridge Causing Concern
State of Cumberoona bridge over Fowler’s Swamp Creek and the unsatisfactory nature of the Government’s proposals, to deal With the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four Soldiers Die Train Crash in South Australia ADELAIDE
Four soldiers were killed and 27 injured when a goods train cradled into a stationary troop train near Copley, 373 miles north of Adelaide,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No More Railway Platform Tickets SYDNEY
Railway platform tickets are to be abolished as from May 27. This decision was announced today by the Railway Commissioner (Mr Hartigan)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grave News From China Japs Take Vital Railway CHUNGKING, May 12
A Chinese communique admits the loss of the tire Palping-Hankow railway. The Japanese have closed the last Chinese-held gap…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Names of Soldier Train Victims Released ADELAIDE
Names of the victims who were killed or injured in the train smash near Copley early on Thursday were released today. A goods train crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Road to Singapore.”
A sparkling potpourri of popular new melodies springs forth from the lively larynxes of Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope In sun-filled safari into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Conscience Money for Railways
The Commissioner for N.S.W. Railways, Mr. Hartigan, stated that he cannot recall a time when be much money had been received from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unregistered Motor Vehicle
To-day in the Police Court Frederick Sweetland was charged with driving an unregistered motor vehicle. Mr, Kelly, for the defendant, pleaded guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Traffic Across Union Bridge
On Monday £170 cars and 90 bicycles in addition to horses and horse drawn vehicles, passed over the Union Bridge This count was made by man posted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Amusements “Road to Singapore”
Companion of Bing Crosby on the golf course. Bob Hope joins Bing in motion pictures with his appearance as the other member of a pair of women-hating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Road to Rome
Rivers and mountains dominate strategy in the new Allied offensive in southern Italy. Kingpin of the Nazi line is Cassino which commands all roads around it. The British and the Americans are now thrusting across the Rapido and Garigliano rivers in a bid to outflank…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Politicians and Troop Train Tragedy ADELAIDE
Following the recent troop train tragedy near Copley, in which four men were killed, 375 miles north of Adelaide, Federal and State…
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