Six Fatalities Road Accidents in New South Wales Heavy Sunday Toll Sydney
Two people were killed and two others critically injured when a Utility truck overturned at Rose Bay this morning. The killed were Thomas…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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Road Safety Rome Points to Remember When Driving
Points in driving which should be observed by all who drive motor veh-vehicles—1.—When starting for a long trip let sufficient time elapse to get used to the tempo of the car, i.e., for the first half-hour or so, let the car drive you before-you drive the car…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycles' Toll
Threats of drastic restrictions on the use of motor cycles have been made by the New Zealand Transport Commissioner (Mr. Laurenson). These…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycle Bandits Toogali Resident Injured Sydney
Police are searching for motorcycle bandits who they have been informed, ran down a cyclist and robbed him…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Racing Fifty Miles Championship Adelaide
Driving a Singer car, T. M. Brady to-day won the Australian stock car road championship of 50 miles from T. H. M'Kinnon in a Ford, with J. K…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rules of Road Sydney
Applicants for drivers' permits at the Road Transport Department to-day were banded copies of the Motor Transport Act and regulations and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Toll of the Road New British Safety Plan London
As part of the campaign to reduce the toll of life and limb in road accident, police motor patrols began to-day to carry a device for testing the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Fatalities Comparison of Periods 1938 Not So Bad as 1937 SYDNEY
Road accidents in New South Wales for the 11 months of 1938 to November 30 decreased by 524 compared with a similar period in 1937, according…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Afican Grand Prix Won by Italian Motorist Capetown
An Italian, Luigi Villoresi, driving a Maserati, won the South African motoring Grand Prix at East London in one hour 59 minutes 26 seconds at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Killed Strange Mishap Melbourne
In an amazing accident on the Hume Highway, three miles on the Seymour side of Kilmore, last night, Harold Butters, aged 20 years, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy Killed by Motor Lorry Newcastle
Gordon Miles, aged 7 years, was fatally Injured when run down by a motor lorry at Carrington to day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gauge Unification and Border Railway Rates Interstate Conference Melbourne
At its meeting in Hobart this month the Federal Cabinet will discuss the question of the unification of railway gauges and what are known as border…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hawkesbury Rail Bridge Mat Be Replaced Plans to Be Prepared
The Minister for Transport (Colonel Bruxner) said yesterday that investigations had shown that tt might be necessary to erect a new railway bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Excursions More This Month
For the convenience of those who were unable to take advantage of the excursion trains run in connection with the Christmas and New Year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Truck Fatality Melbourne
Joseph Board, laborer Employed by the County Roads Board was killed last night when a motor truck overturned on the new Electricity Commission's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Was Given Dope Allegations of Motorist in Court Melbourne
William Edward Harrison, aged 27 years, of Box Hill, suggested in the Malvern Court to-day, when charged with driving a motor lorry while under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Motorist Fined £40 MELBOURNE
The maximum fine of £30 for having driven a car while under the influence of liquor and £10 for having driven a car in a dangerous manner was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Smash Stock Trains Involved Men Seriously Injured Orange
Three men were injured, one critically, when a fast stock train crashed into the rear of a stationary stock train at East Fork Junction near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trespassing on Railway Man Fined at Leeton Leeton
Thomas Weston, aged 31 years, was charged at the Leeton Police Court this morning before Messrs. T. E. Wright, and A. S. Kendall, J'S.P., with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hit-run Motorist Man Injured Near Leeton Leeton
Mr. Moy, of Yanco, was walking along the Yanco-Leeton road yesterday, and when at the spot where the fatal accident occurred on Christmas…
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