Motor Section; News and Views New Field of Ownership Need Of Australian Motor Trade Cheap Insurance Would Be Factor
Expansion of motor ownership among the lower level wage-earners is being considered by the motor trade…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
6,386 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 250
U.S.A. Motor Industry Maintains Pace DETROIT, February 4
A glance at the automobile front reveals that the industry is maintaining a very even pace. Production is running only a little…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Inventors Rush Motor Industry
One in five of the 43,000 patents granted by the United States during 1938, had an automotive application, according to advice received…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Charcoal Gas For War-time Motors As Asset To Defence Bushfire Debris MELBOURNE
Professor A. H. Burstall, of the chair of engineering at Melbourne University, has a plan for storing charcoal supplies from the bushfires areas to be used as fuel for motor cars and trucks in time of emergency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detectives Resent Order To Assist In "Booking" Motorists
All of Sydney's plainclothes police have been instructed that, as well as carrying out their ordinary duties, they are to watch for traffic breaches and to book motorists who break regulations…
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SPECIAL passenger train leaves Central Station at 9.25 a.m. for Newcastle races on Tuesday. A horse and passenger train will leave Alexandria at 8.15 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →City Railway Tragedy Woman Dies After Fall From Train
A woman who fell in front of a train in a tunnel near Museum Station yesterday later died from her injuries. Two passengers told police that the woman appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Macintyre Stock Bridge. Goondiwindi
Mr. Wade, M.L.A., has advised the Goondiwindi Town Council that the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Reid, will approve the proposal to construct a stock bridge across the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man's Long Train Dash To Funerals
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Patrick Dowling, Heatherton market gardener, is making a train dash across three States to Melbourne, for the funerals of his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman's Fall From Train. Carried Along Tunnel
Ambulance officers carried a woman 150 yards along the underground tunnel between Musuem and Central stations at noon yesterday, after she had fallen from a train…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Road Death Victim Was Mending Lorry
One man was killed and several people were seriously injured in road accidents during the week-end. Charles Eric Cox, 32, of Stanley Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South-west Floods. Roads Blocked. Mailman Missing. Streams Subsiding
Roads were badly damaged and bridges were washed away by serious flooding which occurred in the southwestern district on Friday night and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Road Accidents. Bankstown Death. Car Hits Lorry
Charles Eric Cox, 32, of Stanley Street, Burwood, was killed instantly when a car struck him while he was attempting to repair his lorry at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Model Train for Prince. From Our Own Correspondent. London, March 19
The Electrical Development Association has presented Prince Edward, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, with an electrically driven model of the Coronation Scot, the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Proposed Railway Award. Men Resent Terms
Strong resentment was expressed, at mass meetings of railwaymen yesterday, at the terms of the proposed new award for traffic employees issued by the Railway Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Truck Burnt. Goondiwindi
A utility truck, the property of W. D. Ferguson, of Goondiwindi, was destroyed by fire on Friday. Mr. Ferguson stopped the ear on the Talwood road to allow the engine to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Line 8Ft. Under Water Ivanhoe
Further heavy rains have caused more railway washaways near Ivanhoe and the line is eight feet under water in places…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motoring. Road Test. Vauxhall Wyvern. LIVELY 10 H.P. CAR
The minor modifications made in this year's model of the 10 h.p. Vauxhall Wyvern, which were described early in February, have had an effect on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Must Pay When Stranded Train Passengers In Floods IVANHOE
Some of the railway passengers stranded at Ivanhoe since Saturday on account of washaways on the railway, are without money for expenses,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Refreshment Service. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—It was with great wonder and surprise that I read Mr. Bruxner's statement in the "Herald" this morning, that the refreshment rooms had been fully reorganised…
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