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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A dispute between the Department of Public Works and the Commonwealth railways is reported to have arisen from the recent decision of the Minister for Works and Civil…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Trams should remain on the main routes in Manly and district, with buses providing feeder services. The mayor of Manly (Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After falling 20 feet over a cliff at Clovelly yesterday, a youth refused to go to hospital in an ambulance, and left by tram…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- A conference of all sections of the community has been convened by the Unemployed Council and Relief Workers' Association at West…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Halt! Major Road Ahead!" This notice will shortly confront motorists entering main roads around Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. C. N. Neale) received a severe, injury to his forehead at the week-end while surfing at a South…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Minister for Works and Civil Aviation. Mr Thorby, denied yesterday that there was any dispute between the Commonwealth Department of Works and the Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ORANGE, Monday.--Daniel Wymss, of Dalton Street, Orange, received a fractured collarbone and severe shock when a train bound for Forbes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With the Forbes mail train thundering towards him at 5.15 a.m. to-day. Daniel Wemyss made desperate efforts to start his truck which had stopped [?] the Cargo Road railway…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →PERTH, Monday. -- Two trains collided head-on near Beverley, on the Great Southern line, to-day. Passengers and crews of both trains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A trial of the "Hal[?], Major Road Ahead" system on selected lengths of main roads in New South Wales was announced by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE recession of 1937-38 in the United States moved along a course pretty generally foreseen as to intensity and duration. It was no worse than was expected and was over when predicted. To that degree, it was an event subject or amenable to control…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →With cargo from New Orleans and other ports in the Gulf of Mexico, the motor ship Ettrickbank is due at Brisbane on March 10 to the agency of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victor Henry Cook, 6, of Hereford Street, Glebe, tripped and fell from a tram in Glebe Road, Glebe, yesterday afternoon. He received head injuries, including probably a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mrs. Elizabeth White, 62, of Walwa was burnt to death when a motor car, driven by her husband, Mr. R. C. White, burst into flames after an accident on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THERE was a coal strike and a partial drought[?] That simple sentence accounts for much in the review and suggests an explanation of the railway finances during the calendar year ended December 31, 1938. As with all other Government departments,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Motor vehicle production in the United States and Canada during 1938 was approximately 2,635,000 cars and commercial vehicles, according to official estimates received…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The outstanding vehicle in the 1939 Flying Standard range is an entirely new 8 h.p. model, designed to compete in that very small car class which has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a year marked by a long period of unrest, first on the mining fields and latterly by a paralysing waterfront dispute, Port Kembla industrial undertakings have carried on the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →At December 31, 1938, there were registered in Australia 883,959 motor vehicles of all kinds. This total is subdivided into 552,122 cars and taxis, 251,930 commercial vehicles…
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