Car and Tram Collide
After cannoning from a light standard embedded in the footpath, a car collided with a tram car in Crown Street, Surry Hills, on Saturday. Three men who were in the car were injured…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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Motor Boating. Pennzol Fails at Record
Although conditions were not favourable to the highest speeds at Kogarah Bay on Saturday, a stiff breeze making the water choppy, Mr. R. Richards sent Pennzol several times over the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Cycle Runs Into Sea. Fishermen Rescue Rider. NEWCASTLE
When a motor cycle ridden by Harold Botham, 19, of Speers Points, skidded in soft sand on the beach near Anna Bay this afternoon, both Botham and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor Torpedo Boats. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I was very interested in leading in to-day's "Herald" that the very important question of the building of motor torpedo boats is getting some prominence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Youths Are Warned of "Scaling" Trams 100 Cases Heard This Year
One hundred cases of "tram-scaling" have already been heard at the Children's Court this year and 60 informations await hearing. This information was given to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Screen Wipers for All Trams
All trams will be fitted with windscreen wipers by the time winter arrives, the secretary of the Tramway Employees Union. Mr. J. Brock, said…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gunpowder on Railway Line More Bomb Plots in England: Liner Damaged at Sea London
A SUSPECTED attempt to blow up the main northern railway line between Darlington and Newcastle was frustrated by an unemployed miner. He saw two men behaving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fast Motor Roads for Russia
Construction of roads for fast motor traffic is now being pushed forward in Russia. One of the first to be constructed…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →"Kingsford Smith" Aerodrome. Name to be Officially Proclaimed. MELBOURNE
The Federal Cabinet to-day mode the long delayed decision to make official the name "Kingsford Smith" aerodrome. A proclamation to this effect will be issued…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Train Driver Dies. Brisbane
John Curtis, driver of the locomotive which came into collision with the Toowoomba-Brisbane mail train on Friday, died in Brisbane Hospital to-night. His leg had been…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Road Signals Working
Electromatic signals operated by pedestrians were used for the first time in Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Toll Among Children
Seventy - seven children under 14 years of age were killed in road accidents in N.S.W. last year;…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mount King George Road. I Katoomba
At a meeting of the Blue Mountains Shire Council it was disclosed that the construction of a road to Mount King George as a national work was being investigated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George's River Bridge. Tolls Will Probably Continue Until 1947
There is little likelihood of the toll on George's River bridge being discontinued until 1947, according to preliminary estimates of the financial statement now being prepared…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Palms to Be Removed. New South Head Road
By nine votes to three the Woollahra Council decided last night that the palms in New South Head Road, between Victoria Road and Wunulla Road should be removed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →China's Back Door: Road to Rangoon Rangoon, January 1
CHINESE engineers may claim credit for one of the greatest road-building feats of modern times. This is the newly-constructed motor road, 650 miles long, built in less…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Bridge To Start Have to Blow Away Half Mountain Gosford
RAILWAY engineers commenced taking soundings to-day for the new railway bridge across the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old North Road. Charms of Macdonald River. Valley of the Past
Those who travel into the northern parts of New South Wales follow, as a matter of course, the New England Highway, which leaves the coastal Pacific Highway some miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flagship Canberra Leaves for Hobart — Pedestrians Operate Traffic Signals on Parramatta Road
The flagship, H.M.A.S. Canberra (left), leaving the mooring buoy in Farm Cove early yesterday morning for Hobart. Above: The last pinnace leaving Man-o'-War steps. The cruisers Sydney and Hobart will join the Canberra at Jervis Bay and carry out exercises on the voyage to Tasmania. A big brother operating the new press button traffic light control which…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Warning to Children. Risks on Trams
The danger of children "whipping behind" on trams was emphasised by the Acting City Coroner, Mr. Wood, at an inquest yesterday, after it had been…
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