Run Over by Train Woman Shockingly Injured Sydney
Run over by a train at Newtown to-night a woman was killed instantly, her body being mangled beyond recognition. Her head, arms and legs were…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
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Indian Railway Mishap Eleven Persons Killed. Calcutta
Eleven Indians were killed and 13 were injured in a midnight accident, when the Peshawar to Lucknow express Struck a stationary goods train at…
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Fired at by Bedouins in the French Syrian desert, and a narrow escape from being thrown into prison in Turkey, were some of the experiences…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Truck Overturns Eight Persons Injured Melbourne
A motor truck conveying a party to Melbourne from Eltham, overturned near Hurstbridge. The following were injured: G. Harvey, aged 41 years,…
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A motor cycle ridden by L. J. Burrows, aged 24 years, skidded and dashed with great force into the side of a motor car on Point Nepean road,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Accidents Nervous Woman Seizes Steering Wheel Death Results Melbourne
When J. Bassett was driving a motor car near Thomastown his wife, Rose Louise Bassett, aged 34 years, who was sitting beside him, became nervous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Speed Motoring "Wizard" Smith's Record 146 Miles an Hour Auckland (N.z)
At the Ninety-Mile Beach "Wizard" Smith smashed the Australasian one mile motor record, covering a measured mile at a speed of 146.3 miles an hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rothbury Coal Railway Workers Will Not Handle Sydney
By 233 votes to 122 the member of the Waratah and Newcastle branches of the Australian Railway Union decided not to handle coal hewn by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Thefts 974 in Victoria Melbourne
During 1929, 974 motorcars were stolen in Victoria. Of that number 891 were recovered intact and 52 were found either stripped of burned…
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The new Chief Commissioner for Railway has a "cheerful hope" that a way will be found out of the dilemma facing the [?]gement of this great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclist Killed Crashed Into Car Melbourne
A motor cycle ridden by L. J. Burrows, 24, skidded and dashed with great force into the side of a motor car on Point Nepean road,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Bodies Contracts Total £1,010,750 for Australian Builders Adelaide
Mr. H. B. Phipps, vice-president of the Chrysler Export Corporation, states that contracts for the manufacture off 11,600 motor bodies during a…
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By 223 votes to 122, members of Waratah and Newcastle branches of the A.R.U. decided not to handle coal hewn by volunteer labor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sabotage Attended Friday's Riot at Ashtonfields Attempts Unsuccessfully Made to Fire the Colliery Newcastle Branches of Railways Union Ballot Against Coal Haulage Sydney
It is reported that an attempt was made to fire Ashtonfields colliery during Friday's demonstration. Big coal screens were set alight, but the flames were extinguished before any serious damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Railways Chewing-gum Menace Goulburn
Mr. H. C. Judd, assistant divisional engineer on the railways at Goulburn, who with. Mr. J. Hunter, divisional engineer at Newcastle, made a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposed New Railway Combanning to Narandera Narandera
The State Parliamentary Public Works Committee visited Narandera yesterday to make an inspection of the alternate route of the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Police Leave Sydney by Rail and Road Motor Cycles Requisitioned Sydney, Tuesday (1.30 a.m.)
In anticipation of further trouble on, the coalfields another party of 50 police, fully, equipped, left for the north by the Glen Innes mail train last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cockle Creek Train Drivers Cease Work Newcastle
Pickets interviewed the engine drivers on the West Wallsend to Cockle Creek train service which is carried on by a private company,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cut to Pifces Under Electric Train Sydney
Stepping between the rails as an electric train wag drawing into Newtown railway station late last night, Mrs. Gertrude Mary Robertson. 47…
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