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Railways, roads & transport, 1927

2,109 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 106

Gates on Roads An Armidale View

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 6

At first glance a road user would plump for the general removal of all gates across public roads (says the Armidale "Express.") They…

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Gates on Roads Dumaresq Council's Problem Special Meeting Considers

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 2

A special meeting of the Dumaresq Shire Council wan hold recently to consider the question of pates on public roads. The problem is one…

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Families Leave Homes Roads in Shocking Condition TENTERFIELD

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

Following one of the heaviest storms on record, in less than an hour the creek began to rise and before midnight it was a banker. It…

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Tenterfield-casino Traffic Block Bridge Approach Swept Away TENTERFIELD

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

Swamp Oak Creek came down a banker early yesterday morning, and old hands state that never before have they seen such a volume of…

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Bluff Rock Bridge Gone £1 a Car to Cross TENTERFIELD

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

Yesterday morning the bridge at Bluff Rock on the main northern road was swept away by flood waters and for a time all traffic was blocked…

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Grafton Road Suffers Mail Car Blocked Driver and Passengers Build Crossing

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

When Mr. "Bili" McLucas, driver of the mail car for Messrs. Robinson Bros. reached a sport between the 53 and 54 mile pegs on the Grafton…

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Railway Picnic

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

Practically all the railwaymen of the north with their wives and families are in town to-day for…

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Terrific Rain in Queensland. Motorists in Precarious Position. ROCKHAMPTON

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

Terrific rain in parts of Queensland have caused streahra to run a cross Emu Creek stalled in the mid-banker. A motor car Attempting to…

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Trucks Bolt. Tramway Employee Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 6

A ballast tram of two trucks, loaded in metal, bolled at Rozelle (this morning, and crashed through the double gates of White Bay Power House,…

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Motor Tyres. New Type Involved

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 8

British motor tyre manufacturers believe that they have at last succeeded in manufacturing a tyre capable of enabling Major Segrave to establish…

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Our Motoring Section. Notes and News from all Quarters. High-speed Tyres—speed in the Wrong Place — Economy in Driving and Upkeep—the Best Is the Cheapest

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 9

While no car has yet attained a speed of 200 miles per hour, tyres have, nevertheless, been tested at that speed. In a specially constructed…

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Concrete Roads

The Uralla Times · Monday 31 January 1927 · page 2

Mr J. Cape, a specialist in street [?]ving from Racine, Wisconsin, is in Sydney on a holiday visit. Mr Cape said that the State of Wisconsin…

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Last of a Bridge

The Uralla Times · Monday 31 January 1927 · page 2

The ancient culvert over Sawpi[?] Gully, at the foot of Francis' Hill, collapsed during Thursday night under the weight of water coming…

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Motors & Motoring the Motor Show

The Uralla Times · Monday 31 January 1927 · page 4

The Motor S[?] of the M.T.A. just [?] was successful beyond the dreams of the [?] During the whole time the exhibition…

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Glen Innes Road. Main Roads Board Activity. Work to Be Undertaken

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 7

It will be good news to motorists and others to hear that work is shortly to be undertaken to recondition the Glen Innes Road…

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Road Worker's Injury

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 4

Mr. Patrick Burke, an employee of Macintyre Shire, who was working on the Guyra road, was brought to town yesterday suffering from a badly…

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Over the Bridge Car Falls Into Water SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 1

A motor driver who was proceeding on to the bridge across Long Cove Canal, Leichhardt, last night, lost control of his car when a wheel…

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Mann River Bridge Team Comes to Grief Shire Councillors Concerned

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 4

"Jimmy Dux" deals with things in general, and the Mann River bridge in particular :— I was in town early and met Bill…

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Main Roads Strike Five Hundred Men Out Serious Upheaval Possible SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 1

Although of small dimensions in its beginning the strike of laborers employed on the main northern road to Newcastle has developed rapidly…

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Thrilling Trip Service Car in Creek Accident on Glen Innes Road

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 4

One of Willbat's service cars[?]on the Glen Innes road was towed into South Grafton on Friday afternoon at about 5.30 o'clock, and the incident…

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