New Train Record Two-way Run to Glasgow
Shattering a world record, by covering the 402½ miles from Euston Station to Glasgow, non-stop in 5 hr. 53 min., recently, a London, Midland…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1937
1,800 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 90
Negotiations Continue U.S.A. Strikes General Motors and Shipping Dispute
NEW YORK, Sunday:--A move for the settlement of the two great strikes in the United States, that of the General Motors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Hurt Street Collision Motor Cycle and Car
A motor cyclist and his passenger, who was riding on the pillion seat, were injured when a head-on collision…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →56,323 IDLE General Motors Strike DETROIT
Twenty plants and 56,323 employees of General Motors Corporation are idle as a result of strikes, and an additional 15,126 men, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt Motor Record Have To Reach 130 M.P.H.
THE Australasian speed record for motor cycles is held by "Art" Senior, who, riding a streamlined O.K. Supreme machine last August, dashed over a bitumen-surfaced highway to reach a mean average speed of 123.3 m.p.h.; Senior's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Decapitated by Train Body Identified Yesterday
SYDNEY, Monday:--The body of a man who was decapitated by a train at Liverpool (N.S.W.) on Sunday, was identified yesterday as that of Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fresh Development Bloodstains on Road MELBOURNE
A fresh development in the wedderburn mine shaft mystery to-day was a statement by a local resident that he had seen bloodstains on Calder…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Day Labor or Contract? on Casino-coraki Road
In reply to Cr. Watson, who asked when work on the Coraki road would be started, the President of Tomki Shire (Cr. Whitehead) said that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Work Retarded By Holidays And Storms Shire Engineer Reviews Position
Owing to the Christmas holidays and some stormy weather, the previous rapid progress on Kyogle Shire Councils road improvement scheme which is being carried out by subsidised loan money was somewhat retarded during December…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road to Fairymount Suggestion To Shire Council "Matter for Future,' 'Says Writer
A suggestion that the council should give consideration to the construction of a road to the top of Mount Fairymount, by turing off the Cawongla Road at the top of the cutting and following along the ridge was made by Mr. G. W. Hillyard…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Camping Holiday at Brunswick Heads Visiting Motorist's Impressions
Mr. E. R. Hockings, who was companied by Mrs. Hockings and family, spent the greater part of his Christmas and New Year holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mystery Unsolved Sinking of Motor Tug and Punt
BRISBANE, Monday:--The mystery surrounding the sinking of the motor tug Tyne and an 80-ton punt loaded with stone at the Naval Stores wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Trespassers CASINO
At the Casino Police Court to-day seven young men were each fined 10s on a charge of trespassing on railway property. The men were all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cow Killed By Train CASINO
suddenly jumping at an engine of the North Coast mail as the train was about to pass over a level crossing on the Lismore road to-day, a cow, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Slides on Roads Byron Council Will Stop Practice
Byron Shire Council yesterday received a report by the Shire Engineer (Mr. M. Smith) concerning the practice, of farmers using slides on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Toll Still Increasing Sydney
DURING Christmas week there were 9 deaths due to road accidents, or seven more than the total for the corresponding…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Byron Shire Council Nashua to Pearce's Creek Road
At Byron Shire Council meeting yesterday, Cr. E. J. Cook voiced a hope that there would be a minimum of delay on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spoiled by Big Mouth McAdam's Road of Early Days
A workman once spoiled a road because he had too big a mouth. He was employed by John McAdam, the "father" of modern…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reduce Road Accidents British Scheme Special Training for Traffic Patrols
LONDON, Monday:-- In a further effort to reduce the number of road accidents in London, the Commissioner of Police (Sir Philip…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →539 Persons Killed Last Year Road Accidents in New South Wales
SYDNEY, Tuesday:--Five hundred and thirty-nine persons were killed in road accidents in New South Wales last year, according…
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