The Motorists' Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes by "Carbon." Bluff Artists
You lead an interesting life when you represent "the senior motoring organisation in Australia [?] and you'd' be surprised at the number of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
491 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 25
Motor Car Prices Move to Prevent Excessive Increase
Because a number of agents have announced that motor car prices will shortly rise, the Commonwealth Prices Commission is investigating costs in…
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At last meeting of the Clyde Shire Council a letter was read from the Divisional Engineer advising that the adjustment of the cost of…
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A remarkable incident has come to the knowledge of the Brisbane police. While a woman was on her way to hospital she gave birth to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads Deaths in Country Too Much Carelessness (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Analysis of reports of road accidents in the State for December and January show that more than 65 per cent, of the fatal accidents are occurring outside…
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The State Premier, Mr. Mair, to-day appealed to motorists to take a few old bags in their cars when they were going to the country so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Army on Wheels Motors Repplace the Horse
"Mechanisation" of the army has become a familiar phrase, but how many Australians have any appreciation of the extent to which it has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Motorisation"
The term "motorisation" can be used to cover all the steps in substituting mechanical transport for horse-drawn vehicles. One good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blaring Motor Horns Ban in Operation to Be Danger Warning Only
Motorists who sound their horns except as a warning of danger now do so illegally. An announcement enforcing the prohibition has been…
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In the first three months of the compulsory inspection of motor vehicles, 13,430 vehicles, or 17.5 per cent, of the 76,900 vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →70,033 New Motor Vehicles More British Cars
A total of 70,033 new motor vehicles were registered in Australia during 1939. According to a summary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorists’ Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes
You lead an interesting life when you represent the senior motoring organisation in Australia, and you’d be amazed at the number of people…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Music on the Air
Car radio has doubled in popularity during 1939, according to dealers throughout Canada. In 1938, it is estimated, there was one car radio for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Army on Wheels Motors Replace the Horse
“Mechanisation” of the Army has become a familiar phrase, but how many Australians have any appreciation of the extent to which it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents on Roads Car Hits Post
George Miller, 47, of Hurstville, was killed and four other people injured, one critically, when a car crashed into a post on the corner of Botany Road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Safety Road Deaths in Country (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Analysis of reports of road accidents in the State for December and January show that more than 65 per cent. of the fatal accidents are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cyclists’ Deaths
The need for wearing goggles when riding through bushfires, was emphasised by the Bulli Coroner in recording a finding of accidental death…
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Before Mr. M. J Ryan, P.M., at the Queanbeyan Police Court this morning, John Hawkins was charged that on February 3, while under the influence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Protection for Pedestrians
Police escorts for pedestrians at busy crossings is the basis of a plan that has been instituted at Trafford Bar, Manchester, by the Lancashire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists’ Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes “Carbon” Stands by the Farmers
“Carbon.” of the R.A.C.A., who is regarded as one of the leading motoring authorities in Australia, spiritedly defends the farmers against the…
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