Safer Cars Helped to Cut Road Toll Compulsory Inspection
A most important contributing factor to road safety over the Christmas and New Year holidays was the compulsory testing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1940
2,099 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 105
Britain Keeps on with New Road Projects London
As the Minister for Transport (Captain Euan Wallace) recently explained, all road Improvement schemes of major importance, which had reached…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →16 Deaths on Road Over Holidays Decline Pleases Minister Fewer Accidents in 1939 TENTERFIELD
After examining the road accident figures for the holiday period the Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxner) exclaimed to-day: "That is wonderful!"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£4500 Fire Damage at Motor Works Adelaide
Fire caused £4500 damage to the works of General Motors-Holden Ltd., at Woodville to-day. Kapok padding and instrument panels…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Best Railway Garden
Fassifern railway station, which has many times already won the annual station gardens competition, again occupies first place in the Newcastle traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Motor Body Works Adelaide
Key units of the vast plant of General Motors-Holdens. Ltd.. at Woodville, were menaced by a fire which gutted the big bulk store adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singleton's Claim Defence Aerodrome and Training Centre Wants Newcastle Help
The Mayor of Singleton (Ald. T. C. Weedon) and the Town Clerk (Mr. C. A. Buchan) spent yesterday in Newcastle as an official delegation from Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road Cycling Handicaps for
Greater Newcastle League and Amateur Cycling Clubs will hold six-miles handicap races at Stockton on Saturday to open the 1940 season…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Many Men on Singleton-putty Road Muswellbrook
Hundreds of men are engaged on the Singleton-Putty road. It is reported that early in the year more men are to be employed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Building As Usual Britain's New Schemes LONDON, January 3
As the Minister for Transport (Captain Euan Wallace) recently explained, all road improvement schemes of major importance, which had reached an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Franco-spanish Railway Reopened Paris, January 3
Franco-Spanish railway communication, which was interrupted in July, 1936, has resumed at both ends…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Prosecution in Future Motorists Who Toot Too Much SYDNEY
The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. C. N. Neale) announced to-day that motorists who made unnecessary noise by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Royal Motor Yacht Club
Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club will resume racing at Toronto on Saturday, when there will be three events—Turner point…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tooting Motorists to Be Prosecuted? Sydney
To show that they are serious in their threat to prosecute motorists who unnecessarily sound the horn, traffic police to-morrow will decide what…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Cycle Stolen
Percy Wilber Sheddon, of Martinstreet, Hamilton, reported to Newcastle police yesterday afternoon that his motor cycle had been stolen from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →750,000 Passengers Without Accident by Road Transport
Nearly three-quarters of a million passengers were carried on buses and trams in Newcastle during the Christmas and New Year holidays without any cases of serious accident. In announcing this to-day, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Yachting Again at Toronto
Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club will resume racing at Toronto to-morrow afternoon, with three events. These are the Turner point score,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Warnings for Motorists
Sydney, Thursday.—During the Christmas holidays police took the names of 20 motorists who used their horns unnecessarily. Warnings will probably be given…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →East Maitland Police Court Police Court (Before Mr. N. L. C. Sherida. P.m.) Motor Traffic Breaches
Six motorists appeared on charges under the Motor Traffic Act at East Maitland Police Court yesterday. For having exceeded the speed limit on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railwaymen As Historians Write Monographs Of Stations LONDON, December 10
A large number of railway station-masters in Sweden have for some time been plying their pens for a unique literary purpose. About two…
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