Fords Bridge Christmas Tree
Winners of competitions at the Fords Bridge Christmas Tree are as follows: Yamaha Motor Cycle, Janette Galvin: Boys Watch, John Holmes; Girls Watch,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1977
26 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 2
Crown of road for stock freighters
Sir â A few of us don't appreciate the snide remark of your writer about truck drivers. We notice that he likes it when the driver him the âcome onâ wink when it is safe to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The railway that never was Bid to resume work on abandoned rail link to Newcastle
Moves to raged in die State for the rail link proposal between Western NSW and New-castle castle have resurrected a controversy which has raged in the State for most of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LETTERS Those road transports
SIR â Your correspondent, Mrs R. Newbold of Coonamble, is a loyal supporter of the men who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LETTERS Marihuana - road hazard?
SIR â The people who want to make marihuana legal are not considering the effect it has on drivers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truckies want road tax abolished
The Long Distance Road transport Association of Australia will continue its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road trains on the inner routes
The massive road trains, which haul livestock and goods throughout the vast…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rugby League by “Leagueite” Bourke at the Cross Roads
The fate of Bourke 1st Grade Rugby League team for 1977 is to be decided at Goodooga on Sunday. Bourke are sharing third place with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cyclist wins road title
Dubbo cyclist Graeme Peadon won the NSW Country Road Championship at…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Bitumen work turns country roads into crystal highways
Road makers eem to be able to apply a bitumen surface tin Sydney and around the suburbs without ill effects to windscreens. However, let a bitumen team loose on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Used Car Feature The good old days of motoring
The statement that âgood drivers are born and madeâ might well have originated in the early 1930âs âif we take the following instructions in the same good faith as the spirit that moved the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bridge built in 1929
The present bridge over the Castlereagh River at Gilgandra was built in 1929 for $45…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →That railway line again!
The railway line that was conceived in 1911, legalised in 1927, launched in 1936 and abandoned in 1950, the Maryvale Sandy Hollow line, is in the news again…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Blame the road — not the driver”
SIR â Many friends have asked me do I a reply for T.S. Trangie (W. M. 10/8/77). Sure, I have often had bad experiences trucks. There are bad truck drivers â but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crafts for Living—on the Road
âCrafts for living â on the roadâ an unusual exhibition of craftwork involving a wide range of materials and processes will be on display during next week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LETTERS No great saving in road freight
SIRâAn organisation that depends on the working people as much as anyone else for its customers is doing a number of country working people out of a job…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bitumen Road and Car Park for Aerodrome
Councillor John Ridge, Shire President, has advised the Bourke Shire Council has received advice that the Access to the Airport and also the Car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →F.i.d.o. Hopes for Road
F.I.D.O. â the Federal Inland Development Organisation, still hopes for a bitumen road between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fords Bridge Motor Club Gymkhana
Tomorrow, Saturday, October 8th is the big day of the year at Fords Bridge when the Motor Club will conduct a Gymkhana for cars, Motor cycles and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Around and About Mankind takes big steps on road to progress, but
IT is fifty years since an unknown film actor named A1 Jolsen appeared in a brand new type of moving picture â the first…
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