When Petrol Boils In A Motor Tank
Temporary stoppage of hundreds of cars during the recent heat-waves, owing to failure of the fuel supply provides…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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Passing Tram Fractured Skull
Struck by a tram at the corner of George and Little Regent streets, city yesterday, as he leaned from the compartment of another tram,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Manly's Trams To Give Way To Bus Transport Next August
Trams will go from the streets in Manly and district during August and will be replaced by buses, according to an official announcement by the Department of Road Transport and Tramways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raced For A Wager -- Both Motorists Lost AUCKLAND
For a wager, Christchurch streets were turned into a speedway in the craziest scene ever witnessed there. Motor cars raced round a block of busy streets, scattering pedestrians and scaring other drivers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed by Train
The man who was killed under a train at Mortdale station last night was identified to-day as Frederick Joseph McMahon, clerk, of Alford's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Improving Road Safety
Despite a vigorous safety campaign, accidents on the State roadways still cause an alarming number of deaths and injuries. The tragic toll of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Unconscious on Road
MAITLAND, Sunday.--Found unconscious by a passing motorist on the Clarence Town Road on Friday night, Colin Lloyd, of the Tannery, Clarence Town,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Killed by Train
A man, believed to be Frederick Joseph McMahon, 57, of Moon Bay Road, Lugarno, was killed by a steam train at Mortdale railway station late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Scenic Road Proposed. Coonabarabran
The Coonabarabran Shire Council has decided to ask the Department of Works for a full grant to construct a scenic road across the mountains from Coonabarabran to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →60 Marooned on a Train Brisbane
Because of washaways caused by heavy rains, the Mt. Isa train has been held up at Cloncurry, in tin far north-west…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jumps Under Train Horrifying Scene At Mortdale
While a crowd of waiting passengers looked on horrified. a man jumped to his death beneath the engine of a steam train at Mortdale railway station last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£8,000,000 On Roads And Railways Stevens Ready to Start Strategic Jobs Cost Will Be Shared With Commonwealth
The State Government was prepared to undertake at once a programme of railway and road works of strategic military importance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents on Roads. Two Footballers Killed. Newcastle Collision. NEWCASTLE
Two well-known Rugby League footballers, George Soreng, 26, and George Edward Oliviera, 23, were killed, and Frederick Rees, 61, was injured, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fears for Party on Lonely Road Adelaide
Anxiety is felt for the safety of Mr. Phil Gibson, Queensland drover, and his wife and year-old baby and, two men named Barton and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gun Fell, Struck Road, Killed Woman AUCKLAND
A woman was killed instantly at Ramarana today when a shotgun fell from a car and exploded, the charge entering her chest and neck. She was Mrs. Phyllis Marian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Tolls on Cars. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The statement of an unnamed Minister in to-day's "Herald" that the loss of revenue involved does not permit any reduction in tolls on cars is too tough entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Radio at High Speed N.Z. Builds Studio On Train
AUCKLAND, Sunday.--Plans for the conversion of a luxuriously appointed railway carriage into a completely equipped radio station have been completed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cargo Motorship Hoperange First Tyne Launch This Year
The single-screw cargo motorship Hoperange, which is being built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., at their Neptune…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Motorship Kaituna Due Sydney On Maiden Trip
The new American-Australian Line (Birt & Co. Pty., Ltd., managing agents) motorship Kaituna from Philadelphia and New York,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Struck by Tram
Walter Jones, 28, of Blenheim Street, Enfield, was struck by a passing tram car at Central Square on Saturday night. He suffered a fracture of the skull,…
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