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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1941

367 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 19

Road Safety (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales). Walking Into Trouble

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 2

Pedestrians had the worst road accident record of all road users last year. They still hold the same unenviable record this year…

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Walking Into Trouble (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 3

Pedestrians had the worst road accident record of all groups of road users last year. They still hold the same unenviable position…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Used Car Purchase

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 8
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Despite the decline in the number of registrations of motor vehicles and in the use of those on the road, good used cars are becoming very scarce,…

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Seven South African Railways Are Using British Brakes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 4

Up-to-date apparatus for brakes and signalling have been dispatched from the Westinghouse works at Chippenham, England, to several of the South…

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Motorists’ Corner Official R.A.C.A Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 3

Storage appears to be one, of the main problems, affecting Australia’s petrol and oil supplies, and exhaustive enquiries, by the Royal Automobile…

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Bicycles and Motor Cycles—£41,000,ooo British Makers Celebrate a Jubilee

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 3

The makers of British bicycles and motor cycles, whose Union has just completed fifty years’ work have sent £41,000,000 worth of their, products…

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Unregistered Motor Vehicle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 2

Before Mr, J. A. Harris, Relieving P.M. at Queanbeyan Police Court today Leslie J McIntyre pleaded guilty through Mr J. L . Maguire to a charge…

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Road Safety Death Free Easter on Country Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 2

It is a sad commentary on our vaunted civilisation that whenever holidays occur they are marked by accidents, involving death, sorrow and…

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Shire Roads Engineer's Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 3

The Engineer, Mr. S. H. Liddicoat, reported at Thursday's meeting of the Tallaganda Shire Council as follows:— 1941 Main Roads Maintenance…

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Death Free Easter on Country Roads (Issued by the - Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 2

It is a sad commentary on our vaunted civilisation that whenever holidays occur. they are marked by accidents, involving death, sorrow and…

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Lower South Coast Road

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 3

Advice has been received by the N.R.M.A. that the lower South coast road, between Coalcliff and Clifton, which has been dowd during road…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Easter Road Safety

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 2
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

Heavy traffic on the roads, together with the holiday atmosphere, will make Easter one-of the most potentially dangerous periods of the-year; in the…

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The Motorists' Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes by "Carbon."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 1

Storage appears to be one of the main problems affecting Australia's petrol and oil supplies, and exhaustive inquiries by the Royal…

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Big Railway Works Rail Chief lnspects Southern Railway System

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 3

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, on his return from an inspection of the. railway system in- the southern portion of the State…

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Railway Excursions in May

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

In addition to the excursion tickets issued every week-end for travel between any two stations wholly within the Tourist Area, there will be an…

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Road Safety the Ostrich of the Road

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 8

We laugh at the ostrich because he pokes his head in the sand when there is danger ahead. But how very like the ostrich is the man who pulls…

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Autumn Road Dangers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 3

Greasy roads following heavy rain require more careful driving by motorists says the chief engineer of the N.R.M.A. (Mr. J. Fielder ) who warns…

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