Baby Health Train Mishap While Shunting ADELAIDE
During shunting operations to-day at Brinkworth, the recently opened Baby Health Train received a thump which broke several windows and disorganised or…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1933
3,346 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 168
Cessnock Wollombi-road Fire Open Verdict at Inquiry
The Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) conducted an inquiry yesterday into a fire which partially destroyed premises in Wollombi-road, Cessnock, on December 29,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bridge Tragedy Woman's Death Leap Attempted Rescue Fails Sydney
After wrenching herself free from the grasp of a young man who attempted to hold her, an elderly woman to-night threw herself over the Sydney Harbour Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early Action Railway Economies Inquiry Into Alleged Errors Sydney
The new administration appointed to take charge of State railway activities will lose no time, it is believed, in investigating the working of the various…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor-cyclist Injured Sydney
Thomas Winter of Coogee, sustained a compound fracture of the skull and abrasions when the motor-cycle, which he was riding skidded and struck a telegraph post…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Trades Hall Council Meeting of Executive Possible Sale of Trams
Mr. R. Sainsbury presided at a meeting of the executive committee of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council last night At its conclusion, the Secretary (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reduction in Motor Oil Sydney
From to-day the wholesale price of first grade motor lubricating oil, marketed by the major oil companies, will be reduced by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Belmont Bridge To Be Rebuilt
Destroyed by flood four years ago, Belmont Bridge, an important structure on the Cessnock-Branxton road, is to be rebuilt. This will be welcome news to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Showing Up the "Road Up."
The road-hog, the nervy driver, or the racing "ace"—all these types of motor-car drivers can be revealed by tests at the National Institute of Industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Era Discard Your Prejudices Bridge Bidding
PREJUDICES die hard where auction bridge players are concerned. More or less unconsciously, most of them are biased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brisbane Notes Christmas and Trams
It may be a sign of the times—a barometer that indicates the turning of the much-talked-of and written-about depression corner. The fact remains at any…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Vehicles Registrations in December Value of Quarterly System Sydney
Figures supplied by the Commissioner for Road Transport show that there were at the end of December, 1932, 212,137 motor vehicles registered in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Electrocuted Testing Motor Engine SYDNEY
While using electric power to test a motor-car engine at Auburn to-night, an engineer, named McSweeney, 22, in the employ of the Australian General Electric…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A London Letter The Air and the Future—A Boy and a Violin—The Strain of Office—Engineering Feat—Testing the Motorist LONDON, November 22. Mr. Wells Warns Humanity
Mr. H. G. Wells, author of so many books about the future, has looked ahead once move (in a broadcast talk this time) to give humanity a warning, and a grim…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Average Cut £250 Railway Department Chiefs SYDNEY
It was stated today that the salaries paid to the heads of the civil engineering, locomotive, electrical, and traffic branches of the Railway Department…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railwayman Hurt
Rockley McCormack (39); living at 23 Elizabeth-street. Mayfield, a guard, employed by the New South Wales Railways, received injuries to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycles Collide
In a collision between two motor cycles on the Great Northern Road, near Greta, late last night. Archibald Treadgate, aged 21, laborer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold-seeking by Aeroplane
Our Canberra correspondent writes—The feat performed by Pilot Baker in landing and rescuing the gold prospector Whelan in Central Australia has been acclaimed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor-cyclist Injured
Jack Kennerdale, 21, of 2 Rowan-street, Merewether crashed with his motor-cycle at the corner of High and Elgin Streets, West Maitland, early on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland District West Maitland Fatal Accident Motor-cycles Collide
Archibald Thredgate, 21, a labourer, living in Wyndham-street, Greta, who was admitted to the Maitland Hospital early on Saturday morning by the Maitland…
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