All-glass Train
The first all-glass train designed by a Lancashire firm, which seeks to show the use of glass as a decorative medium, has started its 2,000 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1938
1,866 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 94
Narrow Escape Motor Lorry Left Road BALLINA
Three occupants of a Wollongbar Experiment Farm truck had a narrow escape from injury this evening when the vehicle left the road and ran into…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Landslide Blocks Road Springbrook Isolated
BRISBANE, Tuesday:— The township of Springbrook has been cut off from Southport by a landslide on the main road, following torrential rain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bitumenising of Roads C0ndong Range P.p.u. Branch Discussion
At the recent meeting of Condong Range Branch of the P.P.U., Tweed Shire Council's works programme was discussed, with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Injured Sawmill Employee Transported Over Flooded Road In Boat
GRAFTON, Tuesday:—As the road between Clouds Creek and Nymboida was flooded, ambulance bearers from Grafton Utilised a flat-bottomed boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →12,000 Mile Road Down the Americas Canada's Part About 1,000 Miles
VANCOUVER, Canada:— A motor highway through British Columbia from the United States boundary to Alaska, at a cost of some 12,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring From England to Sydney Young Adventurers Reach Fremantle
PERTH, Tuesday:— Five months ago two young men, a Canadian journalist named T. E. Kidd working on the London "Daily Telegraph," and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Murder of Motor Cyclist Car Driver Remanded
SYDNEY, Tuesday: — Allegations that the accused men had made three attempts in a motor car to run down a motor cyclist were made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Transport Inquiries On North Coast
The Department of Transport proposes to carry out regional inquiries in border districts in connection with the registration of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aerodrome Proposal Councils Decide to Defer Consideration
After representatives of Murwillumbah Municipal Council had conferred yesterday with Tweed Shire Council, it was decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Byron Bay Road
At a special meeting a number of Byron Bay business men agreed to provide the balance of the money required for the construction of a road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →East-West Road
THE announcement that the 260 miles of road from Ballina to Boggabilla will be proclaimed a State Highway from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bridge Notes. Culbertson Hates the Game Now!
"I hate playing bridge," declared Mr. Ely Culbertson, the £100,000 a year world expert, when he arrived in London from New York (says a London…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Between Jetties Byron Bay Business Men Will Assist Byron Bay
At a special meeting a number of Byron Bay business men agreed to provide the balance of the money required for the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Awkward Predicament Motorist Loses His Pants
Late" on Saturday night (says the "C.R. Advocate") Mr. Collie, Ashby ferryman, answered a knock on the door of his residence, and he was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nearly Thirty Motor Drivers Lost Their Licenses Already. Sydney
Nearly, 30 drivers have had their licenses cancelled since the new laws came into force on December 22nd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Murder of Wife Railway Employee for Trial
ADELAIDE, Thursday: -- William Hercus Findlay (37), railway employee, residing at Swansea, was to-day committed for trial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brisbane Letter Visiting Motorists Criticise City's Traffic Manners
Brisbane's traffic manners are severely criticised by visiting motorists from the southern States, and some of them who have been here recently have gone so far as to declare that they will never brng their cars with them…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motorists' Escape
Dahl Singh, of Lismore, and Mr. Finlay, of Brisbane, had narrow escapes from injury when their cars almost met in a head-on collision on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Road Deaths MELBOURNE
In his annual report, the coroner (Mr. Tingate) reveals that during 1937 fatalities from motor vehicle accidents numbered 311, which is an increase…
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