Huge Cost of Modernising Roads
Road modernisation, particularly in densely populated centres, has become of paramount importance in the world’ss leading molorised countries,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Smooth Tyres Dangerous On Wet Roads
With so many motor vehicles running with smooth-worn tyres in service on our thoroughfares and highway and the approach of winter with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortage of Bicycle Tyres Big Road Races Not to Be Held
The accumulation of replacement bicycle lyre requirement throughout the commonwealth during the war years [?] such large proportions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rail Travellers May B[?] Stranded At Albury Road Passenger Service Plan Cancelled No Trains To Melbourne On
Victorian Transport Regulation Board on Monday asked Albury-Wodonga [?] of the Road Passenger Service Operators’ Association to provide a Melbourne[?] service supplementary to the curtailed Victorian rail service. Yesterday it called the arrangement, saying the Railway Department had expressed itself [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trams May Have to Stop Running MELBOURNE
The chairman of the Tramways Board (Mr Bell) when asked to comment on the effects on the board’s tram services of the extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car and Motor Cycle Club Meeting
The executive of the Riverina Sporting Car and Motor Cycle Club has convened a meeting for tomorrow evening at a o’clock. The agenda carries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUMBAARUMBA Application to Hold Road Races Refused
An application by the Tumbarumba Cycle Club to hold road races on the Adelong road has been refused. A letter from the Police Department stated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Air Tramp On World Flight New York
The world’s first international air tramp, the Port of Sydney, a converted four-engined Halifax bomber, which left England on April 23 and is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Transport Booming SYDNEY
Road transport with Victoria is booming. A spokesman for one carrying firm said to-day that road transport from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£12,000,000 Yearly Cost of Bad Roads
Bad loads caused by wartime deterioration are costing Australian motorists £12,000,000 per year—or an amount equal to half Australia’s peak annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Excursions
The Secretary for Railways, Mr. S. R. Nicholas, has announced that arrangements have been made for excursion tickets to be issued (at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poison Danger in Cars Warning to Motorists
A warning against the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning in old cars in need of engine conditioning is given by the NR…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By Road—but Not by Rail
Enormous motor trucks, laden with all forms of cargoes roll through Albury by day and by night, lifting much of the merchandise that a stricken railway system in Victoria cannot handle. The picture above shows a Sydney-owned lorry, entering Wodonga on the way…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CYCLING Road Season Opens To-day
Albury Cycle Club will hold a 10 mile road race at Wodonga today in conjunction with the Wodonga Cycle Club. Today Is the official opening of the road…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Road Transport May Stop Tyre Shortage And Parts MELBOURNE
While settlement or extension of the Victorian industrial turmoil hangs in the balance as the conference called by Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Motor Cyclists Killed Four Others Injured Melbourne
Four men were killed and four were injured in a series of accidents involving motor cycles over the weekend. Three men were killed and two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Smash Death Boll 15
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The latest check of the casualty roll in yesterday's disastrous railway smash, at Camp Mountain, sets the figure at 15…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland’s Worst Railway Disaster 14 Killed When Picnic Train Derailed Tragic Happening Near Brisbane BRISBANE
Fourteen persons are known to have been killed and 35 were injured, 23 seriously, in Queensland’s worst rail smash which occurred on Dayboro branch line, about 11 miles from Brisbane, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Will Jump Off Bridge Handcuffed and Shackled LONDON
According to the “Daily Mail.” the Australian escapologist. F. Murray, aged 45, will return lo Australia soon to jump off Sydney Bridge in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strikes Hold Up London’s Road and River Traffic
Shipping is [?] held up [?] the hole Of London’s great dock system owing to strike of dock stevedores and lightermen, while in the City itself many difficulties are being caused through separate strikes of workers employed by the City Corporation, including street…
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