40 Killed in Italian Train Crash Rome
A last passenger train colliced with a troop train at Torre Amunziata station. Forty bodies have been recovered. One hundred and fifty were…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Killed by Train Man Falls From Platform Sydney
George William Kent, aged 59 years of Kogarah, was fatally injured when he fell beneath a train at Kogarah station to-day. Kent was on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exodus From City All Roads Crowded Over Week-end Sydney
Yesterday and to-day 66 special trains left Sydney carrying thousands of holiday makers to various places it the State Motorist organisations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Toll of the Road Accidents During Holidays One Killed—many Injured
THE HOLIDAY period brought its sadness, as well as its gladness, and on the roads around Gundagai more than a dozen motor accidents occured. Many people ware injured, and one man lost his life…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →20 Soldiers Killed at Christmas Time Colonel Bruxner Appeals for Road Courtesy Sydney
An appeal to road users to aid in reducing accidents during the week-end was made to-day by the Minister for Transport (Colonel Bruxner)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclists Collide Wagga Man Injured Machines Badly Damaged
Two motor cyclists on their machines came into violent collision at the intersection of Fitzmaurice and Johnson streets about 10.45 a.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Motor Car Accident Miss Nora Hay Badly Injured Car Overturns on Gilmore Road
Miss Nora Hay, of "Bonnie Glen," Batlow, received serious injuries on Saturday morning December 23 when the motor car she was driving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brave Constable Rescues Unconscious Soldier in Path of Oncoming Train Sydney
Early this morning Senior Constable W. C. Plummer saved the life of Sergt John D. Honey, of ingleburn camp by jumbing in the oath of a moving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water as Fuel Italian Invention for Motor Cars
Signer Pietro Pasoll, of Bergamo, has succeeded in applying a new invention for running motor vehicles by means of the electrolysis of common…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beaufort Bombers Assembly in Railway Workshops Sydney
Sir Frederick Stewart, acting Minister for Supply, to-day refuted the statement made that Australian railway workers could not efficiently carry out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Despatched From Southern Railway District Week Ended December 30
During the week-ended last Saturday 114,302 bags of new season's wheat and 250,771 bulk were received through railway gates in the southern railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Motor Works Damage Estimated at £4500 ADELAIDE
A are caused £4500 damage to the works of General Motors-Holden, Ltd. at Woodville to-day. Kapok padding and instrument panels were burned:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Manufacture Big Factory Near Melbourne Employment for 6000 MELBOURNE
The secretary of Pengane Motor industries Pty. Ltd. (Mr. Lee) to-day said that he had conferred with financial groups In Sydney with a view of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapped by Train on Gundagai Railway Bridge Young Woman’s Frightful Ordeal Presence of Mind Saves a Tragery
Swimmers and on onlookers at the Gundagai Swimming pool, will never forget the drama that was staged on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Motor Accident at Tumut Woman Badly Injured Car Overturns on Gilmore Road
Miss Nora Hay, of “Bonnie “Glen” Batlow, received serious injuries on Saturday morning December 23, when the motor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne's Hottest Railway Lines Damaged by Heat Melbourne
The hottest day for the summer was experienced in Melbourne to-day when a shade temperature of 103.6 degrees was registered in the city at 1.20 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water as Fuel Italian Invention for Motor Cars
Signor Pietro Pa soli, of Bergamo, has succeeded in applying a new invention for running motor vehicles means of the electrolysis of common…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Fruit Industry at Cross-Roads"—Says Sugar Concession Committee Chairman Leeton Visit to Examine Price Fixation Problems
THAT it was a necessity to increase general orchard efficiency so that greater production per acre could be achieved was the opinion expressed by Mr. A. R. Townsend, Chairman of the Fruit Industry Sugar Concession Committee in a special interview with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Engines A.C.L Prepared to Give Way Melbourne
"If any Australian organisation with the financial competence which satisfied the Government, and which could produce the necessary capital—say…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Making Mr. Curtin Alleges Partisan Ship Perth
The leader of the Australian Labor Party (Mr. Curtin) to-day accused the Federal Government of partisanship it granting a motor manufacturing…
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