Motor Horns Use To Be Restricted
The Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. [?]ale. announced that motorists who made unnecessary noise by the tooting of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Threatened Railway Strike Broken Hill Line Secretary and Minister Argue Trains Declared "Black" General Boycott at Broken Hill SYDNEY
The State Secretory of the Australian Railways Union, Mr. Lloyd Ross, has replied to a statement by a Railway Department official that if the men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scrap the Trams Minister's Denial SYDNEY
The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, says the government is not going to scrap trams just because the bus transport is a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motoring Miscellany
Radio is banned in cars in Calcutta, India. When the 1914-13 war broke out there were only 132,000 cars in use in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Will Not Scrap Trams Policy to Develop Transport System as a Whole SYDNEY
The Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxner) said to-day that the Government is not going to scrap its trams just because bus…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Mishap Car Strikes Tree
The four occupants of an early model car had fortunate escapes from serious injury when the vehicle left the road and struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →45 M.P.H. In Built-up Area Motorist Fined
Before Mr. F. T. Scroope, P.M., in the local Police Court yesterday a motorist from Queensland was fined for driving at a speed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Producer Gas For Motor Vehicles The Limitation Aspect
There is at present an over-whelming case for the conversion of many of Australia's land transport vehicles to operation on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aeroplane Factory Formed in Sydney Technicians From U.S.A. SYDNEY
A company with a capital of one million pounds has been formed to manufacture aircraft at a site near Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train on Fire Sleeping Passengers Alarmed PERTH
Passengers in a sleeping carriage attached to the Perth-Wiluna train woke up yesterday morning to find the carriage on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday's News A.I.F.—Casey for U.S.A.—Modern Dress—Motor Construction—Charcoal Gas Units—Miners Idle—Pea Rifle Accident
The medical officers of the First Australian General Hospital, the names of whom are published, include many of the most distinguished physicians…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Building the Zambesi Bridge
The Lower Zambesi River, at the point where the now famous bridge crosses it, is 12,064 feet. Though the whole of the bridge is over water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tragic Love of Flowers Woman Killed by Train
Mourning his wife, Ida, killed on the railway at Newbrough, Northumberland, while on holiday, Mr. James Gibbison, a Southern Railway employee,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Horns Use to Be Restricted
The Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. Neale, announced that motorists who wade unnecessary noise by the tooting of a horn would be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collisions and Motor Smashes Need for Mental Alertness
More than one half of motor accidents are caused by collisions, the result of foolish and unnecessary hurry, lack of mental alertness, failure to see…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motoring with Difficulty
Cars may only be acqu[?]red in Germany on the production of a permit from the Reich Minister of Transport. Intending owners must prove…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on Railway Bridge Near Tycannah
A special train brought a rescue party from Moree on Tuesday night to fight a fire in the timbers of a railway bridge near Tycannah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trees on Roads New England Highway Department's Good Work
An active policy for the planting and preservation of road trees has been adopted by the Department of Main Roads. Travellers on the New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press Child Born on Train SYDNEY
A child was born on a train, bound for Sydney, as the train approached Hawkesbury River bridge to-day. The mother and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Hogs Women or Taximen Mr. Bruxner's Observations SYDNEY
The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, who yesterday watched Macquarie Street traffic from Bridge Street corner in the city, said he could…
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