Road Lesson From Bus Speeds
An urgent warning of the need for far-seeing traffic plans in Australian cities is implied in a recent address by…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
6,386 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 250
Train Rocked As Blast Wrecks Works Adelaide
Terrific explosions today wrecked one of Mt. Gambier's biggest freezing works and damaged nearby buildings. Most of the passengers on a Victorian Reso tour train, which was standing about 200 feet way, suffered from shock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Trail-Side Museum" New Road To Rugged District
Creation of a "trail-side museum" at Kanangra Walls, op the lines of similar attractions in U.S.A., is planned as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fast Motoring Beats Express
It has been reported that General Huhnlein, chief of Germany's motor sports, recently covered a distance Of 360 miles on the Berlin to Munich…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Critical Position Motor Sport Faces New Requirements In This State
A critical stage in motor sport in this State was reached in the year just closed. Never since the inception of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Section
At the Pinnacles, Kanangra Walls. The distant gap is near Yerranderie silver mining district…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Threats to Motor Cyclists Auckland
Threats of drastic restrictions on the use of motor cycles were made today by the Transport Commissioner, Mr. Laurenson…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tramway Men Are Keen To Form Own Battalion
A proposal To form a Diggers' Militia Battalion, composed of tramway employees, is being advanced by the Tramway Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Association. With a membership of 1100,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Train for N.y. Fair
LONDON, Sunday.--The Coronation Scot, most famous train of the London, Midland, and Scottish railway, will be shipped from Southampton on January…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Toll. Six Dead; Many Injured. Scores of Accidents
Six persons were killed and several others were so seriously injured that there is little hope of their recovery, in road accidents in New…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Contract Bridge Responses To an Opening Suit-bid of One Suit Takeouts (No. 7.)
A SUIT takeout is an over-call of partner's opening bid with a new suit. There are three varieties of suit takeouts: (1.) Forcing for one round of bidding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Toll Starts With Years Dawn 4 Fatally Injured by 4 A.M. Husband Slainln Crash In Outside Wife's Flat
WHILE Sydney was ushering in the New Year with revelry, four people were killed in road smashes in the first four hours of 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram and Car Collide. Brisbane
Three persons were injured in a collision between a tram and a motor cal at the corner of Adelaide and Wharf Streets, city last night. Thomas Archer, 40, wardsman at the General…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motorists and Pedestrians. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—"G.N.S." deals with only one side of the load accidents question. As a driver of a motor car for the past 14 years, and travelling 36,000 miles over both city and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Revellers Hold Up Trams
KING'S CROSS, traditional scene of Sydney's New Year festivities, was impassable to traffic long before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Holiday Tram Services
Holiday timetables, commencing and finishing at the same time as ordinary week days, will be in force on all tramlines today, with exceptions as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Safety. Appeal to Motorists
"Road sense is common sense," says the Road Safety Council of New South Wales, in a statement, issued yesterday, appealing to motorists to exercise…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Famous Bridge Doomed
A new railway bridge will have to be built over the Hawkesbury River to replace the existing bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →McLAUGHLIN to Train on Wharf
Ron McLaughlin, who will tight "Kingfish" Dixon at Leichhardt next Tuesday night, will train at noon today at the Patrick Steamship Co.'s wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Road Reports. Tumblong Deviation Opened
Motorists who intend using the Hume Highway between Gundagai and Albury will welcome the news that the Tumblong deviation is now available to traffic, states the N.R M.A…
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