Motoring in Heat Waves
Recent heat waves temporarily held up many hundreds of motor vehicles throughout NSW through vapor lock and burst tyres. NRMA…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1952
955 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 48
Motoring Pars and Personalities
A move for the development of a synthetic rubber industry in Britain is urged by Sir Clive Baillieu, president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£3m. bridge for N.Z.
AUCKLAND (NZ), Wed: [?] in London on January 14 and in Australia early [?] for the building of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Action Against “Road Straddlers”
SYDNEY, Wed.: Police action will be taken against motorists and transport drivers who straddle the centre of roads, Traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Want Road Tax Modified Rural Goods Suffer
The N.S.W. Government was asked to lift the road tax on motor lorries when rail trucks are not available, by the Liberal Party's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Iteams of News Fire on Howlong Road
Fire destroyed 10 acres of grass on the Howlong rd. early yesterday afternoon. Local residents operating a furphy and Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pilot engine for Royal train
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The train to be used for the Royal tour of Victoria in March will comprise the new Vice-Regal car, a State car,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truck Owner Fined Road Fatality Sequel
Sequel to a road fatality last September, in which 15 years old George William Smith lost his life was heard in the Hay Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Sports Club Gets Ground
Hay Motor Sports Club has been granted permission by the Pastures Protection Board to use a reserve at Soapworks Bend to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Series of Fires on Rand Railway Line
On Tuesday last the morning train going to Rand lit three fires within a distance of three miles, which, but for prompt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway accidents in United States
NEW YORK, Thurs.: Fifty-four persons were reported injured yesterday in two railway accidents. Near Yonker (Sas.) two Canadian…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railways Busy on Wheat Lift
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: If the railways could bring its total of wheat trucks loaded this week to 4000 and maintain the total…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fewer Holiday Road Deaths
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Despite the enormous increase in holiday road traffic—possibly an all-time highroad deaths throughout Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lighted 90ft. crown on Harbor Bridge
SYDNEY, Fri.: Royal tour officials ore considering a plan to illuminate Sydney Harbor Bridge with giant Neon crowns 90ft. long and 60ft. wide. The plan is to have a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two killed on roads, two drowned
MELBOURNE, Sun.: Two people were killed in road accidents in Victoria during the week-end and two others drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Four Hurt in Road Smash
Four men were hurt, one critically, when the small car in which they were travelling crashed into a truck on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →196 in train trapped by snow
SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.: Snow avalanches trapped an express train with 196 passengers and a crew of 30 last night 7000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains…
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Most Albury and district garages and service stations were at a standstill during the three hours power breakdown last Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Albury Service Station Plans Showers and cafe facilities for motorists
Albury will soon lead Australia in service station facilities for heavy transports and motor cars. Hot and cold showers, as well as cafe facilities for motorists while their cars are being serviced, are to be features of the Border Service…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New menace to train passengers
EMIGRANT GAP (Cal.), Wed.: The 226 persons aboard the express train “San Francisco,” snow-bound high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, yesterday faced a new menace — from…
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