Road Accidents Increase
Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of the State showed increases in 1944 over the previous year. In the combined areas there…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
203 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 11
The Flood's Toll Part of Clyde Mountain Road Slips Into Gorge Widespread Damage
The great floods which followed the torrential rain of last Saturday and Sunday caused widespread destruction throughout the Braidwood and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. [?]
The N.R.M.A. has made a further protest to the Government against the proposed imposition of a toll upon the new Hawkesbury River road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wet Weather Motoring
Many motorists are running their cars on smooth tyres, which are dangerous on slippery roads. Mr. J. Fielder, chief engineer of the N.R.M.A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Tyre Shortage
The motor tyre shortage due to lack of adequate supplies of natural rubber and insufficient manpower is far more serious than most people realise. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Price of New Petrol
In view of the decision to alter the quality of petrol available to the public, the N.R.M.A. urges that motorists be given the benefit of any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wet Weather Motoring
Many motorists are running their cars on smooth tyres, which are dangerous on slippery roads. Mr. J. Fielder, chief engineer of the N.R.M.A.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists' Federal Secretary
Mr. T. G. Paterson, recently-appointed secretary of the Australian Automobile Association, is in Sydney on a business trip. The A.A.P. is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Future of Motor Engineering
Mr. J. Fielder, chief engineer of the N.R.M.A., considers that motor engineering has a great future in Australia that boys of the right type…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Mishap Injures 16
While travelling from Parkes to attend a conference at Katoomba, sixteen persons, members of Jehovah’s Witness Sect, were injured when a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Transport National Necessity Overtaxed
The modernisation of Australia’s railroad system, which Is at present under consideration, is more important than the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£14,000 Flood Damage Roads and Bridges in Tallaganda Shire
AT Saturday's meeting of the Shire Council the acting-engineer, Mr. T.L. Thompson, in a comprehensive report in connection with the recent floods, estimated that at least £14,000 would be required to restore roads and bridges in the Shire. This does not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Removing Tyre Destroyers
An example that the Government could well follow, in order to remove the menace to motor vehicle tyres of nails and similar material from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oranmier Bridge
No time is being lost in replacing this bridge, which was washed away by the recent floods. We understand that, following a conference on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge Wanted Petition From Sutton
Following on the recent accident Mr. Darmody’s car in the crossing over McLouglin’s Creek at Sutton on the Gundaroo Road, a petition, signed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Pillage from Cars in Transit
Motorists could only too well confirm the reports of extensive pillage of goods during shipment, said the general secretary of the N.R.M.A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Fuel of the Future?
The N.R.M. has received advice that one of the biggest American oil companies has taken out a patent for the manufacture of motor fuel from air…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Ignorance of Traffic Law
Glaring breaches cf some of the traffic regulations designed to produce road safety have been reported to the N.R.M.A. by motorists. Mr. H. I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn Tragedy Killed on Railway Line
Terribly mutilated, the body of Thomas Joseph McDevitt was found on the Crookwell railway line opposite Mulwaree Street, Goulburn, late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Peat's Ferry Bridge Tolls
Many small cars will go across Peat's Ferry bridge at a cheaper rate than the average car, the N.R.M.A. points out. The toll is 1/- for cars or…
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