Road Fatalities
The total number of people killed in N.S.W. during 1950 was 632, compared with 535 in 1949, an increase of 97. Mr. H. A…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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The Motor World Saving Life on the Road
"The days of propaganda, posters and platitudes are past," said Mr. H. E. Richards, NRMA general secretary, discussing the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Cuts Off Man’s Head Shearer Put Neck On Railway Line At Dubbo
A quarter-caste shearer committed suicide at Dubbo by placing his neck on the railway line in front of a shunting engine on August 25 last. This fact was revealed when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Tyre Trouble
N.R.M.A. chief engineer (Mr. C. H. Napthali) says that many instances of tyre trouble arise from improper placing of the inner tube in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Staff News
On Saturday morning last there was quite an amount of excitement! at the railway station when George Sonneman drove the Tocumwal rail…
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The New South Wales Railways showed an overall loss of £2,494,605 in 1949-50, despite an operational profit of £841,182, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Round the World by Motor-Cycle
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Two Englishmen are setting off tomorrow by motor-cycle to ride 33,000 miles around the world…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway's Big Score in Taylor Cup Sem-final Against Institute, Town's Exciting Win
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF CRICKET ARE LEGEND, BUT THAT BETWEEN MARRAR AND TOWN YESTERDAY KAY EVEN MAKE NEW HISTORY AND WILL CERTAINLY GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING CLASHES IN…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Race
The bicycle race set down for Saturday next is causing some excitement among riders both young and old…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stalin's Train Wrecked By Parisians
UELZEN (East Germany). Monday (A.A.P.): An East German refugee revealed yesterday that 25 armed Polish partisans…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train 4½ hours late last Friday night
Passengers, who left Sydney at 8 a.m. on Friday morning last in the Riverina Express, did not reach Leeton until half an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shock Tactics to Cure Road-hogs R.S.L. Visitor at Wagga Rotary Club
The use of shock tactics to startle people into a true appreciation of highway dangers was advocated in an address to Wagga Rotary Club yesterday by Mr. M. W. Plate, field officer of the Road Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints for Motorists
Here are some hints for motorists from the N.R.M.A. engineers. Continuous trouble with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors and Motoring Notes Careful Polishing Only Way to Preserve Car Finish
Cleaning and polishing naturally concern the owner of a good car, but he has probably adopted a cleaning technique developed over a period of years into a satisfactory weekend ritual. Even he, however, may like a change, because it is a particularly healthy idea in polishing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£2,200 Grant Sought Traffic Diversion Damaged Roads
Burrangong Shire Council is seeking a £2,200 grant to repair road damage caused by traffic diversion during the floods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What is to be Done About the Roads?
The main highways of this State are in a deplorable condition; so much so, that parts of them are now considered dangerous. Anyone who attempts a journey by car between Wagga and Sydney will understand just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subsidy for Country Road Safety Branches Aproved
The Commissioner for Road Transport, M. A. A. Shoebridge, has approved a recommendation from the Council of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Float Overturns on Boorowa Road Driver Dazed; Missing for Two Hours
A big stock, float, loaded with horses and cattle, overturned on the Boorowa road, about 17 miles from Cowra. The driver,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Falls From Speeding Train; Sailor's Catwalk
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: An unknown sailor this morning crawled along the footplate of a speeding express to tell the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →W.R.A.A.F. to Train at Wagga
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The first batch of 27 trainees for the Women's Royal Australian Air Force are at present undergoing…
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