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Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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Engineer Reports on Bitumen Surfacing On Trunk Road 57 December Shire Meeting

The Observer · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 6

Culcairn Shire Engineer, Mr. A. W. Kerle, reported to the December meeting of Council that B.H.P. had completed the work of sealing the final section of Trunk Road 57 on 26th November…

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Only One Road Death in Tasmania

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 12

HOBART, Sun.: In the heaviest Christmas traffic for many years only one fatality on Tasmanian roads had been recorded so far…

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8 drown; 10 die on roads in Q’land, N.S.W.

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Eight persons were drowned and 10 others died in rood accidents throughout N.S.W. and Queensland during the holiday weekend…

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All-time record volume of road and rail traffic passes through Albury

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 2

An all-time record volume of traffic, both by rail road, passed through Albury this week-end. On Thursday night all trains from Albury to Sydney…

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Life-saving Motoring

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 2

THE current holiday season means a tremendous increase in the number of motorists using the roads, and, it is tragically sad to reflect, an appalling addition to the casualty lists of preventible accidents that…

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Motor Cyclist in Crash

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 10

WANGARATTA, Sun.: At 8.15 o’clock this morning a motorcycle ridden by Vincent PagIai and Sam Campagna collided with a car at…

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12 Scouts Hurt in Road Smash

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.: A van carrying a party of Sunshine scouts to a camp at Warburton overturned at Lilydale today,…

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Motor Cyclists Badly Shocked

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 2

Two Albury motor cyclists were badly shocked but otherwise unhurt when their machine struck a car in High street, Wodonga,…

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Wangaratta Motor Cycle Races

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 9

TOP LEFT: Wodonga motor cyclist Jim Matthews, who won the 350 c.c. handicap at the motor cycle races on the Wangaratta airstrip on Sunday, carrying away his prize after the presentation. BELOW LEFT: R. Neil (Myrtleford) broadsiding while cornering…

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Reporting of road accidents

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 8

Unexpected troubles experienced by motorists in law courts, through statements made in all good faith to police…

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Will Train for Games in U.s

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Tues.: A Newcastle athlete who won a gold medal at the Empire Games left Sydney for America today, where he will train c…

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Motoring Pars and Personalities

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 8

An overhead valve conversion set for pre-1953 Morris Minor cars is being made by the Gear Manufacturing Company Pty. Ltd., of…

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Record road toll in N.S.W

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.: Rood deaths so for this year are 42 greater than for the same period lost year and Hove set a new record rood toll. Total road toll this year is now 742…

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Migrant Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 31 December 1954 · page 5

A New Australian motor cyclist was admitted to Albury Base Hospital late yesterday afternoon after his machine had crashed near…

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