Offer To Motor Makers CANBERRA
The door has not yet been closed to any firm to obtain financial aid from the Commonwealth Government for…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
4,268 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 214
Motor Tooters Booked
Traffic police have reported about 20 motorists who tooted their horns between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day in contravention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£150,000 Purchase in Vic. Motor Deal
MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Neals Motors Pty. Ltd. has completed the purchase of the assets of Overseas Motors Pty., Ltd., which included freehold…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A.I.F. traditions safe with them Tramping feet of the new Anzacs yesterday stirred memories of twenty-five years ago. An old Digger saw them march, and says--
LOOKING down from a Martin Place window yesterday, I watched the new army of Diggers march…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Buses To Replace Erskineville Trams
The Circular Quay-Erskineville tram service will be discontinued tomorrow night. A bus service, commencing on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Returns. Thousands Use New Service
The new Cronulla Railway line received what might well be classed as “its baptism of fire” during the holiday period and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extension of Motoring. Transport Department Revenue
Because of the greater number of motor vehicles in use in the State, the activities and the revenues of the Department of Road Transport and Tramways were considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring New La Salle. a Distinctive Car. Many Refinements
The 1940 La Salle V8 is one of the most attractive models to appear on this market, embodying as it does a grace of line and a refinement of interior…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Noisy Motor Horns Restrictions Favoured. Examples Abroad
The decision of the Government to check the practice of "tooting" the horns of motor vehicles for trivial reasons is welcomed in Ministerial…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tramway Strike Threat. Adelaide Dispute. ADELAIDE
About 1.200 employees of the Municipal Tramways Trust have threatened to strike, which would seriously affect the city's tram services, unless the Trust meets demands…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon
The exhibition in the Sydney Harbour Bridge pylon offers the most amazing entertainment in the Southern Hemisphere. The Tashi Lama, the Buddish Shrine, Times of All Nations, the Cafe…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Express Train Off Track
Two wheels of the Kosciusko Express left the rails between Stanmore and Newtown yesterday, and tore up the track for three-quarters of a…
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When a truck driven by their father skidded in loose gravel into the parapet of a bridge in Forest-road, near Orange, Jack Eddy, 10, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Contract Bridge Discarding Winner May Pay
It goes against the grain with most players to discard a potential winner, and there are few who are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Wheels Of Train Off Rails
The Kosciusko express, with 70 passengers on board, travelled yesterday for three-quarters of a mile with two wheels of a carriage off the rails…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hit by Train, Lay in Safety Gosford
A young, woman had an amazing escape from death at Cowan railway station, late last night. Miss Kathleen Ruther (25), of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charcoal Gas As Fuel. Tests in Heavy Road Vehicles. Petrol Substitute. Canberra
Experimental producer gas plants, intended for use in heavy motor vehicles in Australia, will probably be tested before the end of March…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Steady Trading. Undertone Firm. Motor Plant Dollars. by the Financial Editor
Although recognised leaders were Somewhat irregular, the investment market had a firm undertone yesterday. Trading was on steady lines…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Heinous Crime of Employing 8000 WORKERS! Let Foreigners Build Our Motor Vehicles, Say Little Australians New Industry Loudly Cursed
"SMITH'S" has examined the correspondence file of negotiations between the Commonwealth and Australian Consolidated Industries, relating to the manufacture of motor cars in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foot Caught in Wheel Motor Cyclist Hurt In Fall
George Parkes, 24, of Castlereagh Road, Castlereagh, was painfully injured yesterday when the front tyre of his motor cycle blew out in…
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