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Railways, roads & transport, 1923

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A Motor Smash. Serious Results

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 2

A serious motor accident oc-carred a few miles from Goulburn yesterday afternoon : Mr MeEvoy and his wife and…

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Fatalities and Accidents Motor Smash. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 2

Shortly after midnight a car containing a passengers, collided with a telegraph post in Anzac Parade, near Moore Park. The driver and the…

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Motoring Notes. How to Clean Lamp Reflectors

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 4

Whenever advice is given regarding the test and, least , harmful way of cleaning the reflectors of headlights, it is customary to call attention to the…

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Motor Cycle Club

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 4

The motor cycle run to Gundagai set down for yesterday was abandoned owing to ODea, the record hunter, going through to Sydney a day earlier…

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Melbourne-sydney Motor Cycle Record Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 2

T. O’Dea, a [?] rider [?] Changes, yesterday, to [?] years in the interior of [?] thus [?]…

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Train Tragedies

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 1

Sixteen were killed and 35 injured as the result of a railway accident at Pontabi[?]son, when a train crashed into a shunting' engine…

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Our Need for Railways

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 1

If the Government is sincere in its announcement to push ahead its new and scheme, it will become necessary for it to adopt a more vigorous…

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Motor Theft at Albury

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 2

An audacious theft took, place in Albury on Saturday night, when a single-seater Cleveland Six motor car belonging to Mr. Phil. Dunn, of…

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Killed by Motor Lorry. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 2

An elderly man was critically injured in Elizabeth-street this morning when he was knocked down by a motor lorry. The wheels of the…

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A Fatal Smash. Motor Accident Near Goulburn. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 2

A fatal motor accident occurred at Tarra, eight miles from Goulburn, on Sunday. Peter M'Ilvoy, 43, licensee of Hibernian Hotel, died as the…

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Railway Fatality. Soldier's BRISBANE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 1

Henry Maiming, a returned soldier, was literally, cut to railway line near Brisbane this morning. He was suffer[?]…

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Motor Cycling

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 4

T. O'Dea, Bathurst rider did the distance between the two cities in 10 hours 53 seconds, thus beating the prrevious record by 64 minutes…

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[?] Motor Smash Goulsurn Publican Killed Goulburn

The Daily Express · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 1

The death has occurred of Pater [?] of the [?] [?] who was injured in a motor [?] Sunday when severs…

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Fell From a Train. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 2

Allen M'Arthur, aged 8, was badly injured when he fell from a moving train at Lewisharp station this morning, sustaining a fractured skull, a…

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Railway Smash the Epernay Collision Paris, February 19

The Daily Express · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 1

Further details of the E[?]ruay train accident, in which many people were killed or injured, show Hat the crowded Paris-Strasbourg express,…

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Snake in Train

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 4

The Glen Innes mail arrived at the Central Railway Station on Saturday, and from one compartment six passengers-four women and two…

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Motoring Mishap. Train Runs Into Car. Uranquinty Residents Injured. ADELAIDE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 2

Mr. R. H. Koth of Uranquinty near, Wagga, who is visiting South Australia, was proceeding in a motor car to Maitland with his wife and…

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A Train Smash Berlin, Feb 21

The Daily Express · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 1

Two' trains, controlled by the French in tho Ruhr, collided. Three soldiers were killed and 10 Seriously Injured…

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Fire at Adelaide. Motor Premises Destroyed. Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 2

Duncan and Fraser's extensive motor premises at Adelaide were destroyed by fire this morning. Other buildings affected included the offices…

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Melbourne Motor Tragedy. Driver Committed for Trial. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 2

The Coroner concluded an inquiry regarding the deaths of Cecile Burke and Kathleen Newman, who were killed in a motor accident on…

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