Three Killed Train Strikes Car. Occupants Flung Into River. ADELAIDE
When the Adelaide-Victor Harbour express was passing over the High Street crossing at Strathalbyn at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday, it crashed into a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
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Man Killed. Tram Hits Motor Car. MELBOURNE
When a tram and a car collided at North Coburg shortly before midnight on Saturday, the car was smashed to pieces. One of the men in the car was killed, and two were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Tram Derailed. Two Passengers Hurt. Traffic Disorganised After Carnival
During the peak hour ot the traffic on Saturday night, when thousands were crowding on to trams utter the venetian carnival, stram jumped the rails at the intersection of Pitt…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Vwetian Ball. Royal Motor Yacht Club
Membeis of the Royal Motor Yacht Club had a busy dai on Saturday. Dining the altcinoon they watched the races, and at night they entertained their friends at a Venetian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cycle in Flames. Melbourne
After a motor cycle had struck the rear of a car in Burwood Road, East Burwood, last night, the machine burst into flames. The rider. Leonard Harold Gray, 28, of Bayswater,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Chinese Attack. Battle for Tsining. Guerillas Active in South. Railway Line Cut. LONDON, Jan. 30
The Chinese are attacking vigorously round Tsining on the important Tientsin-Pukow railway, along which the Japanese were formerly advancing…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor Boating. Unlimited Championship. Miss Judith's Decisive Win
Dominating, each heat, Mr. E. G. Glass's new speedboat. Miss Judith II, comfortable won the Australian unlimited motor boat championship at Rose Bay on Saturday, and will hold the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Railway Line Damaged Wall Of Water At Quaker's Bill
Damage, estimated at several thousand pounds, was caused at Quaker's Hill when a wall of water, half a mile wide and 5ft. high, swept through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car and Tram Meet Head--on One Youth Killed; Two Others Injured Melbourne
In a terrific midnight crash at North Coburg yesterday, the three occupants of a car which met an electric tram head-on were flung to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unusual Tram Accident Floorboards Were Forced Up
An extraordinary tram accident. In which a man and a woman were Injured, occurred In Pitt Street, near Bathurst Street, City, late…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallet and Motor Licence Found
A wallet containing a motor vehicle driver's licence, No. 52036, in the name of Edwin H. M. Bacon, of Parramatta Road. Homebush, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Escape in Fall From Train
Falling to the permanent way front a train as it was leaving Strathfield Station last night, Charles Williams, of Huge Street. Redfern, narrowly…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Stop Press Fell From Train
Charles Williams, of Hugo Street, Redfern, fell from a train near Strathfield Railway Station last Bight. He was taken to Western…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Engine and Road Speeds
A good deal of transmission trouble has been caused in motor cars since the general adoption of synchro-mesh gearboxes, because those new owners who have never heard of the old…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Friends Who Like to Train Apart
Firm friends, each an admirer of the other's ability and all the way from South Africa together, Johnnie Coleman and Jimmy Gibson do not believe in training together…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Man Crushed. (Lorry's Plunge from Road
Henry Hunter, 53, or Lord Street, Newtown, was in a motor lorry on the Prince's Highway at Waterfall yesterday when it got out of control, crashed through a safety fence,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gravel on Roads. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In your issue of Saturday last, the 20th instant, there appears a letter signed by H. Shaw, in which he says: "Why the authorities persist in putting loose gravel on roads…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Transport Problems Road and Rail Competition. Sir Josiah Stamp's Address
The problem of competition between rail and road transport in Great Britain and the methods adopted to find a solution to the problem were described by Sir Josiah Stamp,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motorways for England
According to one of the English motoring journals, "the campaign for more modern roads (in England) gains adherents at such a pace that the Government will be forced to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motoring Lanchester. the Roadrider. Features of 1938 Model
A very high-quality British car of modest dimensions, providing very comfortable accommodation for four people, is the 14-h.p. Lanchester Roadrider. The…
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