Motoring Notes Advanced Mechanisation for Australia's Army All-wheel Drive Trucks Haul Guns Through Swamps
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 6
Travelling through country impassable to any ordinary truck, a new type of all-wheel drive vehicle was demonstrated to a large gathering of…
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Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 4
The Junee fire brigade received a call at 1 p.m. yesterday to a motor car on fire on the main Wagga-road about a mile from the town, near the…
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Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 1
Junee Fire Brigade received a call at 1 p.m. yesterday to a motor car on fire on the main Wagga road, a mile from town, near the corner of Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leeton's Favourable Trade Balance Railway Goods Figures Tell Story Freight Revenue Increases £15,000 in Three Years
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 2
THE heartening story of the remarkably steady annual increase In the productivity of the Vanco Irrigation Area is told in the cold figures compiled by the Railway Department showing the exports and imports through the goods side of the Leeton Railway Station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Despatched From Southern Railway District Week Ended January 6
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 5
During the week ended last Saturday 103,418 bags of wheat and 121,437 bulk were received through railway gates in the southern railway district,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Home-produced Fuel Stoves Fitted in Motor Lobbies London
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 1
The emergence of a fleet of lorries from the Brush electrical works at Loughborough heralds the day when home-produced fuel man run road…
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Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 6
With his face battered and bruised, and his right hand and head swathed in bandages, Norman Jobson, aged 22 years, was remanded at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.S.W. RAILWAYS v. Victorian Sydney
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 1
The figures Just made available by tile Railway Department reveals that New South Wales steam locomotives travelled more than 28,274,000 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Despatches From Southern Railway District
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 2
During the week ended last Saturday, 103,418 bags of wheat and 121,437 bulk were received through railway gates in the southern railway district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Plan "Express" Routes Providing for State's Future Needs
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 7
"Express" highways leading out of Sydney are envisaged in a comprehensive plan of road improvements evolved after investigation by the…
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The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 5
The high panjandrums off the Main Roads Department have decreed that time shall not be allowed for men working on the scenic…
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Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 2
Prior to his departure from Goulburn this week, Mr. J. P. Gately, who has been a member of the railway telegraph office staff for some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motorists' Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes by "Carbon." Sunday Petrol Ban
Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 3
The topic every motorist is discussing at the moment is, of course, the proposal to close garages on Sundays. It is by no means a new bone of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycling Wagga Club's Activities Next Sunday's Programme
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 8
Last Friday night the Wagga District Motor Cycle Club held its annual meeting, there being a large attendance present. The election of…
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The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 5
Service stations and motor traders organisations have complained that some owners have not presented their cars for inspection until the day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riverina Review Railway Bridge Drama
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 4
THERE WAS a touch of old-time melodrama about an incident at Gundagai recently in which a young woman fell in the path of an oncoming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tumut Canberra Road Tourist League Keeps Question Evergreen
Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 1
The matter of the Tumut Canberra Road was brought up once more at a meeting of the Tumut Tourist and Progress…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Far East War Japanese Bomb Railway Bridges New York
Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2
The Chungking correspondent' of! the "New York Times" says that Japanese bombers badly damaged an important bridge on the Yuhan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Strikers Show Consideration for Children Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2
with arrangements made for a! strike on the Broken Hill railway line next week the A.R.U. is prepared to run a train for the children at present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Threat to Destroy Railway From Indo-china Unless Munition Supplies Cease New York
Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2
The Shanghai correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the Japanese Army and Navy have demanded that munitions shipments on…
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