Motorists' Risks. Un Usual Accidents
Mr. D. R. Daniels, manager of the E.S. and A. Bank at Kempsey, was motoring to South West Rocks during the holidays when a passing car threw…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1937
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Strike of Motor Body Workers Settlement Conference Abandoned?
FLINT (Michigan), Monday:-- The Automobile Union has refused a permit to the strikers to evacuate the two Fisher motor body plants on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Registrations SYDNEY
Figures given the Premier (Mr. Stevens) by the Commissioner of Road Transport reveal a remarkable increase in motor vehicles in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strike in U.S. Motor Factories Roosevelt May be Asked to Intervene
DETROIT, Monday: Mr. Martin, after a brief meeting with General Motors officials, announced the the conference had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →40 Hour Week French Railway Employees
PARIS, Monday:--The President (M. Lebrun) to-day signed a decree enforcing a 40 hour week in the railways as from January 25. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldier Preference Railway Union Protest
SYDNEY. Tuesday:--The State Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, Mr. Lloyd Ross, stated yesterday that the Union had protested to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Drastic Action" Magistrate's Warning Speeding Motorists SYDNEY
A definite warning that he would take drastic action against motorists convicted of breaking the Safety First…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welsh Nationalists Sentenced Nine Months' Gaol Sequel to Fire at R. A. F. Aerodrome
LONDON, Tuesday:--Seven hundred Welshmen journeyed to London by special train to attend the retrial to-day at the Old Bailey of the three Welsh Nationalists on charges of malicious damage and maliciously setting fire to buildings,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Freak Draughts Blamed Transport Aeroplane Crash
LOS ANGELES, Wednesday:--Federal aeronautics officials heard the first authentic report from the lips of the pilot, Lewis, of the crash on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Roads To Port Stephens
The roads to Port Stevens were recently inspected by the N.R.M.A. which reports that they provide fair travelling conditions. On the road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Development of Civil Aviation Great Britain Junction Aerodrome Scheme
LONDON, Wednesday:--The committee appointed in the summer of 1935, with Sir Henry Maybury as chairman, to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Struck by Goods Train and Unhurt MELBOURNE
To the amazement of the crew of the goods train which crashed into his motor car at a level crossing near Launching Place railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bitumen Roads Works in Byron Shire Council's Plans Byron Bay
With the completion this week of eight miles of bitumen on the main road from the Clunes turnoff to Goonengerry, via Eureka…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Amusements "Toll of the Road" School of Arts Thrills
A top-speed romance, with the menace of auto death playing the role of villian, is told in the powerful Paramount film "Toll of the Road,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Abo. Runners to Rescue Food for Stranded Travellers Tennant Creek Road Impassable
TENNANT CREEK, Thursday: Jack and Paddy, two special tribal runners of the Aarramunga blacks, whose service were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Factory in Melbourne American Motor Interests Negotiations with State Govt
MELBOURNE, Thursday:--It was learned authoritatively to-day that there was a strong possibility of further big…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Less Tickets But More Revenue Railway Business
Although the number of tickets issued at Lismore railway station in December last was 4926 compared with 5091 for the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →World's Biggest Bridge
The six-lane carriageway of the West Bay section of the new bridge system across San Francisco Bay thronged with cars on the Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Diversion of Road Funds
There is no little controversy at present, because the Federal Government which, it seems, regards the petrol tax as a Revenue tax and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ratepayers' Offer Terania Shire Road
At yesterday's meeting of Terania Shire Council, Mr. H. J. Izzard, of The Channon, wrote stating that if the council would carry out work on…
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