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Railways, roads & transport, 1937

9,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

The Fishing Motorist The Trout Streams are in Delightful Touring Country

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 43

FEW sports have enjoyed such a swift rise in popularity as that of angling. In the space of a few years Australians have realised all of a sudden that this is a pastime of extraordinary…

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Handling of Barley Railway Co.'s Scheme

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 1

For regular conveyance of barley between Hull and Burton, and Hull and Sleaford, the London and North Eastern Railway…

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Motorists Warned Against Dangerous Speeds. "Licences Will Be Cancelled."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 13

Motorists who are convicted of driving at a dangerous speed will face the possibility of losing their licences. Mr. Farrington, S.M., issued a warning to…

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Shaft Mystery. Dead Man May Have Lived in Sydney. Search for Motorist Who Might Assist

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 13

The police of two States are inquiring into the murder of a man, believed to be Joseph Murray, a British ex-service man, whose skeleton was found, with a bullet hole in the…

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Railway Employees. Reported Retrenchment. Result of Preference to Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 14

Mr. Lloyd Ross, State secretary of the Australian Railways Union, said yesterday that he had received information that 34 single men under the Chief Civil Engineer would be…

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Railway Urged. Epping—St. Leonards. Mr. Spooner's Statement Criticised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 14

The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Spooner), at a U.A.P. meeting at Ryde recently, referring to the proposal to build a railway from…

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Railway Workers. Variations in Pay Granted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 9

Signal gangers in the railways are to receive increased pay. Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman granted the increase in the Commonwealth Arbitration…

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Motor Industry. Increased Sales in 1936. Anti-theft Legislation Next Session

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 10

The retiring president of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales (Mr. D. M. Goldfinch) addressing the annual meeting of that body yesterday, referred to the…

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Motor Strike. Conference Suspended. President Roosevelt May Be Asked to Intervene. Detroit, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 14

There is a possibility that President Roosevelt will be asked to intervene in the strike in the automotive Industry. The Governor of Michigan (Mr. Frank…

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Motor Traders. New President Elected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 14

Mr. E. P. Askew was elected president of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales at the annual meeting yesterday. Mr. Askew is associated with the firm of…

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Lights to Be Dimmed New Motorist Regulation

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 7

Intenge interest was created recently in New Zealand by the installation of 68 Philora Sodium Vapour lamps on the main traffic highway between Devonport and Takapuna, Auckland. The…

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Luxury Railway-car for Indian Ruler London

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 1

THE world's wonder railway carriage has been built for the Maharaja of Indore by the Gloucester Wagon Company, of which Mr. H. L. Boyce, the Australian-born member of the House of Commons, is the head…

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Defied Tear-gas Attack Strikers Close More Motor Works DETROIT

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 15

The Automobile Workers' Union picket line, estimated at 2000, to-day withstood a police tear-gas attack and succeeded in closing the Briggs…

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Workman Hangs on Live Wire Mate Is Tossed From Tram Lucky to Be Alive After Collision

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 22

AN overhead linesman to-day clung for several seconds to an overhead tram wire carrying 600 volts. His mate, working with him on the high…

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Good Times All the Time Motor-Building Peer's Optimism LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 15

The words "depression" and "slump" should never be used, according to Lord Austin, the motor manufacturer…

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Great Inland Lake Floods Submerge Railway Alice Springs

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 13

FLOODS have submerged railway lines in Central Australia and transformed creeks into extensive lakes…

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Will Not Promise Railway Stevens' Reply To Deputation Of 80 Members

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 6

THE Premier, Mr. Stevens, who was Treasurer in the Government which placed £100,000 on the Estimates in 1929 for the construction of…

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Soldiers' Pref. in Railways No Comment by Department

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 6

Interviewed yesterday, the Acting-Assistant commissioner for Railways, Mr. Newman, who is also Secretary for Railway decline on behalf of the…

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Motorist Difficult to Trace Believed That He Has Missed Appeals In Newspapers

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 5

WITH the hope of intercepting Mr. P. A. Greenaway, who is expected, to help in the identification of the man whose skeleton was found…

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Fifty-Fifty Letterettes In Fifty Words A Palm Beach Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 10

With the proposed electrification of railways outlined by the Government, would it not be a step in the right direction to build a railway…

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