Three Dead Train Crashes Into Motor Car at Crossing Melbourne
THREE were killed when a petrol-electric motor- train travelling from Werri- bee to Melbourne crashed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1933
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Ban on Road Races
BATHURST, Wednesday.--The Abercrombie Shire Council has refused the use of the Vale-road circuit for the annual T.T. races of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Linen Road For Economy
The British Ministry of Transport tests with an experimental road in which linen frabric plays an important part have reached an advanced stage…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Search for Gold. Prospectors Buy Aeroplane. Alice Springs
Jack Atherton and Jim Escreet, the first prospectors of the Granites, have bought an aeroplane, with Pilot W. Brown as partner. They intend to prospect with the machine,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Train Accident Victim's Funeral. Bathurst
There were moving scenes at the funeral of Leslie Joseph Burke, victim of the railway fatality at Tumulla on Sunday. The cortege was large and representative. The driver of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wants a Bridge Built Footballer Fears Long Sea Voyage
"I'M going to have a little bet with you," said "Jeff" Noseda, Secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, to his stenographer, as he sent…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Channel Train Ferry London to Paris by Sleeping Car
In the summer of 1934 it will be possible for travellers to enter a railway compartment in London and reach Constantinople without changing…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Burning Train Trucks Afire; Dash in the Night Melbourne
When a goods train was en route from Melbourne to Bendigo, to-night, portion of the train caught fire. The driver decided to make a dash for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring : The Call of the Caravan The great improvement which has taken place during recent years in the road systems of Australia, and the ever-increasing popularity of motor camping are circumstances which should encourage the building and use of trailer caravans in Australia
VISITORS from overseas have often expressed astonishment at the fact that, although so many thousands of cars are used for pleasure in Australia, a motor caravan is a rare sight…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →A.W.U. Railway Section
MR. J. D. LOCKARD, Organiser for the Commonwealth Section of the A.W.U., reports: A meeting of the A.W.U. members working on the Commonwealth railways…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →RAILWAYS. Permanent Way Department Decentralised Control
The Railway Commission announced yesterday that it had decided to adopt a policy of decentralised control in the permanent way branch of the service…
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Motor [?]aced racing will be revived at the Canterbury Velodrome on Saturday evening. The competitors will be Keith Oliver and A.C. Udby, who will ride a five miles, and also a 10 minutes'…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motor Cycling. Wembley Team
Mr. Jack Hoskins, the well-known Anglo-Australian speedway promoter, and manager of the English team of riders touring Australia, arrived on Monday from Melbourne to complete…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Four-ton Truck. Crashes On To Motor Car. BRISBANE
A four-ton motor lorry dashed down Ivory-street, New Farm, this afternoon and crashed 15 feet on to an unoccupied car in Boundary-street. Both machines were badly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tram Gears. Commissioner Praised
Referring yesterday to the controversy regarding the manufacture of gears for the new tram cars, Mr. John Heine, president of the Metal Trades Employers' Association, said he…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Increase in Motor Vehicles
On every hand we see evidence of increased trade. Figures issued by the Commissioner of Road Transport last week show, that at the end of December last, 212,137 motor vehicles,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Not Drunk Tram-driver Is Discharged
Arthur Keays, 44, tramdrlver, was charged at the Redfern Court today with having been drunk while in charge of a tram in Botany-road…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Retrenched Tram Men Suffer Travelling Facilities
Rail and tram travelling facilities enjoyed by tramway men who were employed prior to the passing of the Bavin Government's transport…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Unions Oppose N.u.r. in Fed. Court Chapple Says Application Is Out of Order Registration Is Sought by National Union of Railmen Ultra Vires ? Deputy-registrar Says Complete Review Necessary
HEARING was continued before Mr. H. W. Tarrant, Federal Industri[?] Registrar, of the application by the National…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →English Railway to Use Our Wood? May Change U.s. Hickory for Spotted Gum
In a letter to the representative of the N.S.W. Government in London, the stores superintendent of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway…
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