Exceeding Speed Limit on Yanco Road Police on War Path
OWING to complaints of motorists exceeding the speed limit on the Leeton-Yanco road, which is a built-up area with a speed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
1,215 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 61
Porter Challenges Railway Order to Join Union
SYDNEY, Thursday: During an Equity Court hearing today. a railway porter, Kenneth Henry Ahearn, alleged that the…
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MELBOURNE. Thursday: Problems of competition between rail and aerial transport rill be discussed before next June at a…
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The Department of Railways announces that a new regulation will come into force on the 1st March next, whereby passengers Joining a…
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On Sunday night last two trains one from Narandera and one from Junee crossed at the Coolamon station. As a result the railway…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The Australian Council of Local Government Associations has decided to ask the Federal Government to…
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MANILA. Monday: Senator Meleck Arranz, Phillipines member of the United Nations Korea Commission, said, "We may find it again…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tiger Moth's Forced Landing on N.T. Road
DARWIN, Sunday: A light aircraft made a forced landing on the main North-South Road yesterday, 14 miles from Mataranks…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: A motorist last night ran into a shower of frogs on Milperra Road, near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Airlines and Railways
Australian railways are losing at least £21 ½ million a year in revenue because of air competition, the Australian Transport Advisory Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Atom-bombing of "Russian Road-block" Suggested
MANILA, Monday, (A.A.P.): "We may find it again convenient to use the atom bomb to blast the road-block that Russia has…
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Stainless steel railway coaches now being built in Britain will be added to the Batron's export list if plans now under discussion are…
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Problems of competition between rail and aerial transport will be discussed before next June at a special meeting of the Federal and State…
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A COURSE of Instruction in motor maintenance for owner-drivers, and all users of motor vehicles will commence at…
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TEMORA, Tuesday: The wash away of the railway line at Yiddah, between Barmedman and West Wyalong, resulted in…
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PARIS, Wednesday: At least twenty persons, including eighteen girls, were killed and ton seriously injured when a goods train crashed into the rear…
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TEMORA, Tuesday: With three school buses operating in the shire councillors of the Narraburra shire have authorised the Engineer (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transporting Tumut Pigs to Cootamundra Waiving of Road Charges Refused
Mr. W. F. Sheehan, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following letter, from the Minister for Transport:—"I am writing with reference to your…
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The main features of the against Stockinbingal was T. Randall's 100, and F. Wearing's hard-hitting 75. Randall now needs 100 more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors and Motoring Over Inflation of Tyres Increases Maintenance Costs and Time Loss
Tyres normally provide a certain degree of cushion both for the vehicle and for the load. Over-inflated, the degree of cushion is decreased, depending upon the degree of over-inflation, to the extent that extreme over-inflation results in pounding of the various units suspending the vehicle, increasing greatly the number of hours of shop…
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