Motoring Wartime Value of Motor Cycles Rider-training Scheme Adopted By Military Authorities
Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 7
In certain branches of the British Army, all officers up to the rank of Brigadier must now learn to master the mysteries of riding a motor cycle. This War Office order has rendered it necessary to devise it special training course, warranted to make pupils proficient…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Batlow Railway Returns Improvement in December
Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 3
Railway business at Batlow for November was somewhat slacker than in the preceding months. The number of tickets sold was 28, for £36, the lowest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Falls of Earth on Railway Near Toowoomba Brisbane
Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 4
A third fall of earth occurred on the Toowoomba range railway to-day. Railway gangs had excavated the fateful Thallon mail wreckage, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Railways Carry On
Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 1
Railway work in Britain has become a hazardous front-line job. A dozen bombs fell on an eastern suburbs station in London one evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Henty Farmers and Settlers Seat Bookings on Trains Railway Hatters Discussed
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1941 · page 7
The president (Mr. W. O. Jones) presided at the recent meeting of the Henty Farmers and Settlers' Association. A letter was received from the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jump From Train Soldiers Elude Guards
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2
Passengers on the Melbourne Express received a shock on Tuesday morning when two soldiers returning to Sydney under escort eluded their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Jumped From Train Injuries to Tongue And Face
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 1
BOOAOWA, Monday: When returning on leave to his wife at Boorowa on the Melbourne express on Saturday morning, Sergeant Charles Dick, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Injured Jumped From Train Injuries to Tongue and Face
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 3
When returning on leave to his wife at Boorowa on the Melbourne express on Saturday morning, Sergeant Charles Dick. of the A.I.F., and until his enlistment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Youths Injured Train Hits Ice Lorry West Mattland
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2
Three youths were injured when a train hit the ice lorry on which they were travelling at a railway crossing on the Morpeth road this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Progress in Eritrea Agordat Road Severed Fierce Italian Stand Heavy Raids on Tripoli London
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 1
British motorised units have severed the 15-mile road linking Agordat and Barentu, in Eritrea. Two Italian divisions retreating from Kassala are reported to have been split…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young's Postman Has Tramped 135,408 Miles
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2
Mr. Ack Speer, Young's postman, has a job which would hardly suit a man with tender feet. "Ack," who, incidentally, is also Young's bandmaster,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COAL Railways Huge Consumption
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 4
The New South Wales Railways, spend annually on materials about 16,000,000. Approximately 90 per cent, of the this amount is spent locally on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Station Bombed London
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 1
A communique declares that the bombing of the Alcha railway station for the third time since the beginning of the British offensive in Abyssinia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Troops Leave Farewell Scenes at Railway Station
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2
Early tills morning, large crowds of parents, wives and friends farewelled a batch of troops from the Wagga A.I.F. camp as they entrained at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Transfers
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2
The following railway transfers and promotions have been announced: R. Golledge, fireman, Albury to Junee, as driver; H. Holt, driver, Junee to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Can Obtain Petrol Ration Tickets Any Day Motorists in the Country
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2
Mr. G. Wilson, M.L.A., Country Party Member for Dubbo, advises that, although the public recently was requested not to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water Catchment Danger on Yanco Road
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 2
AGAIN recent rains have drawn attention to the lack of drainage facilities provided for the Leeton-Yanco road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Progress in Eritrea Saturday. Agordat Road Severed Fierce Italian Stand Heavy Raids on Tripoli
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 3
British motorised units have severed the 15-mile road linking Agordat and Barentu, in Eritrea. Two Italian divisions retreating from Kassala are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists' Interests I Learn to Drive
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 1
When you have held clean licences in six different countries over a period of 20 years you are [?] to hang looking for crack [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Construction Big Programme Fob Three States Loan Council Decides Canberra
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 3
A big programme of railway construction will be undertaken in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia as a result of decisions reached…
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