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Railways, roads & transport, 1936

10,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

School Children Escape In Crash Plans For Quay Railway Station

The Sun · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 44

WHEN several carnages of the Forbes mail train were derailed, five miles from Forbes yesterday, this carriage, containing schoolchildren, was tipped over to an acute angle. It was a lucky escape for the kiddies. THE QUAY station project.--…

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Tramway Cricket Adelaide Players Here

The Sun · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 22

A large party of Adelaide tramway employees and their wives, totalling 71 in all, are touring New South Wales. The visitors came by road, and are under…

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Accidents of the Week. Injured by Motor Car

The Propeller · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 4

As Allan Pier, of Scott Street, Peakhurst, was running to catch a tram at Brighton-le-Sands last Sunday he passed behind a motor…

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Motor Vehicles Collide. Several Persons Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 4

On Anniversary Day Mr. Harold Williams and his wife, Annetta, were driving in a motor cycle and sidecar from their home at Fairfield to…

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Allawah Railway Station

The Propeller · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 3

The Kogarah Town Clerk (Mr. Leighton) reported at this week's meeting that the licensce of the Allawah Hotel, Mr. J. Shaw, had paid…

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Allawah Railway Subway

The Propeller · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 8

Kogarah Council was informed at this week's meeting by Hurstville Council that the estimated cost of scarifying and re-laying with hotmix…

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Bexley's Motor 'Bus Service

The Propeller · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 2

The Department of Road Transport informed Bexley Council at its last meeting that the amount of space reserved for bus stopping-places near…

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City Firm Defrauded Alleged Three Railway Men On Conspiracy Charges "Signed P.n's"

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 8

THAT three railwaymen had extracted largo sums of money from Buckingham's, Ltd., was the statement made at central Police…

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Speeding Motorists in Court

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 8

THAT the police car had registered 75 m.p.h., and the special siren had to be used, before his car could bo overtaken, was the allegation…

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Duty on British Motor Chassis Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 8

Reference was made to-day by the Minister for Customs, Mr. white, to a report received from London which declared that the…

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Railway Tickets Stolen Found Later Hidden in Bush

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 10

On their arrival at Pendie Hill railway station early yesterday morning, station officials discovered that a window of the booking office had…

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Leg Severed in Tram Smash Nurse Pinned Under Wreckage Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 7

When a grinder tram and a passenger tram collided head on in Wendouree, a suburb of Ballarat, this afternoon, Miss Elizabeth Clarke. 45,…

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Classmates Queer Coincidence of Railway Deaths New York

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 8

Classmates at school before graduating and going to separate colleges, Francis Grose and Hugh Strauss, young sons of well-known New York…

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Woman Tramps Earth Alone

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 7

MRS. JESSIE B. DOUTHIRT, of Georgia, who reached Sydney last night from New York by the City of Manchester,…

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Motor Cycle Bolts Knocks Down Girl, Breaks Two Windows

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 1

A motor cycle, out of control, with the rider vainly trying to stop It, dashed on to the footpath in Castlereagh Street, City yesterday, and…

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Motor Yachting Tom Boyce's Debut

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 3

As Vaucluse Regatta will be held next Saturday, there will be no racing at the R.M.Y.C. Into Rose Bay it came amid…

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Increased Output Modern Equipment of Motor Works

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Mr. L. J. Hartnett, managing director of General Motors-Holdens. Ltd., said, tonight that an improvement in the…

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Mr. Hughes Will Motor To Cabinet Rank To-day

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 7

The official announcement of Mr. Hughes's reinstatement in the Federal Ministry will be made from Canberra this afternoon. Mr. Hughes has had a request from the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) to…

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South Grafton Aerodrome. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 12

The South Grafton Council has been informed by the Minister for Local Government that a grant of £250 is being made to improve the South Grafton aerodrome, as a measure…

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Bridge Tournament

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 7

Members are specially requested to inform the General Secretary of their intention to enter the Bridge tournament, to be, held at an early date at the Institute…

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