Cyclists Object to Bridge Toll
The Pedal Cyclists' Association executive is endeavoring to have the Harbor Bridge toll for cyclists reduced, as it claims that threepence…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Ruse Prevents Bridge Leap MELBOURNE
For an hour today a man balanced on the rail of a Yarra bridge, threatening to jump. He was prevented from doing so by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor World N.R.M.A. Notes Wiseman's Perry Road to Single[?]on
Owing to the heavy traffic northward over the holiday season many motorists are inquiring from the N.R.M.A. touring department regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Overturned Fatality on Mulgoa Road
A car conveying a young man and two girls to Mulgoa for the New Year holidays overturned on the Mulgoa Read, near Glenmore, shortly after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Here's a Catch in One Class Train Travel!
If you are travelling with a second class, ticket on country train stopping at stations within the one class area don't ride in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Long-range Road Plan. "Express" Routes. Providing for Future Needs
"Express" highways leading out of the city are envisaged in a comprehensive plan of road improvements evolved after investigation by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Code for Cyclists (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Pedal cyclists have started to pile up accidents again this year. The statistics since June show that the increase in accident for which the cyclists were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Courtesies
The first deaf motorist was drawn up by the side of the road when the second deaf driver passed him, and stopped. The second called to the first: "Have you run out of…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Holiday Railway Traffic
Railway traffic was again, heavy at Penrith during the Christmas and New Year holidays. During the Christmas period it compared well with that of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tramping Feet The A.I.F. Marches
ONE of the most stirring sights witnessed in Sydney for a quarter of a acentury was teh march of 6000 men of the Second A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycling Great Military Value of Trained Rider
THE announcement, cabled from London, that the British Royal Army Service Corps is calling up 10,000 motor cyclist recruits for despatch work and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motoring Memos
POLICE supervision of the approach from the south to the Bridge over the George's River, at Tom Ugly's Point, was excellent on New Year's Day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MOTORS and MOTORING Chevrolets for 1940 Latest Commercial, Trucks and Maple Leaf
REFINEMENTS designed to breeden the range of their usefulness, lower operating and maintenance costs and additional…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ill-equipped Motorists
The N.R.M.A. advises all motorists to travel equipped with the tools necessary to effect minor adjustments and to deal with defective tyres on the road…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Motorist Fined. Story of Injured Dog
A motorist who was fined £7 in the Traffic Court yesterday for having exceeded the speed limit said he had been hurrying to his prizewinning Borzoi dog, which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Excessive Use of Motor Horns. Regulations to Be Clarified
The motor traffic regulations are to be amended to make it clear that the horns of motor vehicles must not be sounded for any purpose except to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Monopoly. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—May I, through your columns, express surprise at the apathy with which the public has received the news of the proposal to establish a factory for the manufacture of motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Killed by Tram
John Ryan, 25, of Darlington Road, Darlington, jumped on the footboard of a tram in City Road, near his home, yesterday, and, when he turned to wave to a friend, was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Large Deal in Vic. Motor Trade Melbourne
One of the largest deals ever negotiated in the Victorian motor trade, involving the purchase of the freehold property and assets of Overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Tempe-east Hills Railway
Sir,--As I am one of many readers of your valuable paper, naturally I perused the letters of "Aussie" and Mr. J. Collar, concerning the…
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