Railway Soccer Club
To discuss the formation of a Railways Institute Soccer Club, open to all railways employees in the metropolitan area a meeting of those interested will be held…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
6,386 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250
Charcoal-driven Motor Vehicle
CANBERRA, Tuesday.--A practical demonstration of charcoal-driven motor vehicles has been given to the Science Congress…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Road Back
AFTER the Japanese had bombed, taken, and later withdrawn from lier home village 60 miles from Hongkong, this Chinese refugee woman and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rocky Point Road. Tram Lines and Garden Plots
"Trolley buses hug the centre of the roads, and cars have to follow them slowly for nearly a mile before they can pass them," complained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Driver Injured. Baradine
James Wilson, driver of the Mudgee-Baradine passenger train, was caught between a carriage and the engine tender when the train was accidentally moved during shunting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By Road to Mudgee
This McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor is owned by Mr. J. F. Webb, of Mudgee. It was taken delivery of at the International Harvester Co.'s Concord Went Warehouse, at 8 a.m. one day and was driven to Mudgee, a distance of 172 miles, where it arrived At 1.30 p.m. three days later. Fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Council and Road Safety
In conjunction with the Government's safety-first campaign to reduce the increasing number of accidents on the roads, the St. George…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Missing in Speedboat. Aeroplane to Search. MELBOURNE
Two men who left Mornington in a speedboat early this afternoon have not returned, and it is feared that they have been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Motor World N.R.M.A. Notes Rule of Road in Europe
On and after 1st May, 1939, Czechoslovak Traffic must keep to the right instead of to the left. The only European countries now adhering to ths…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gone to Turon Single Relief Men Bridle Track Road
FROM Wiseman's Ferry job to a job in the Turon Shire is the move made this week by a number of the district relief workers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Must Be Strong W. M. Hughes's View Young Men Must Train
"FOR any nation to be wreak is an unforgivable crime now a days," declared the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. W. M. Hughes) at Dapto…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Road Jobs Spurned Men Won't Be Coerced NEWCASTLE
The attempt of the State Government to force men in the north into road camps has failed. The men resolutely refuse to accept…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special School To Train Librarians Govt.'s First Move in State Reform
THE State Government will set up at once a training school for librarians. This is the first move to carry out a State-wide library reform urged in the report of the Libraries' Advisory…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Road Safety Plan Praised
"If the Government's plans for greater traffic safety are successfully put into effect there should be an end to a large proportion of the lawlessness seen on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →92 Men Have Close Call £20,000 Factory Fire at Leichhardt Bricks Rain On Roads; Wall Smashes On To House Boy Screams Alarm
Ninety-two men narrowly escaped injury to-day when the furniture factory of Charles Dickinson Ltd., at Leichhardt was swept by fire which caused £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Daily News Feature for Transport Workers To Solve Road-Rail Tangle British Labor Has a Plan Control By Public
HERBERT MORRISON, M.P., Chief of the Labor-controlled London County Council, supplies this article on the conflict between rail and road…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →I.B.-Free Stock and Dirly Truths Railway Co-operation Sought
Unless the co-opcvation of the railway authorities is obtained for the proposal to restrict dairy cattle exhibited at the 1940 and future Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Belgian Motorist Honoured
The National Trophy of Sports Merit —Belgium's premier sporting award— has been made to M. Hubert Carton de Wiart, for motoring from one end of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Employee Injured
On 13th inst Neville Unicombe, 25 years, railway labourer, residing at 20 Grove Street, Dulwich. Hill, suffered a fractured skull when a pulley block fell…
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