Plea, To-motorists
"Wake up and get a move on" is the request of the N.R.M.A. to motorists who use main tourist roads. This, says the association's safety…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 248
Motor Fuel From Molasses Power Alcohol to Save Petrol Report Soon For Cabinet CANBERRA
Australia could produce up to 50,000,000 gallons of power alcohol annually if war conditions made it impossible to send our surplus sugar overseas, according to evidence submitted to the Power Alcohol…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Cut In Motor Imports MELBOURNE
The import quota of motor car chassis from the United States has been cut by 85 per cent, and imports of motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dozing on the beach may be a relaxation—but it doesn't make up for a night of revelry. There's a Proper Time to Be Caught Napping Here's some advice for jitterbugs, bridge fiends, bookworms and carousers—you can't get away with it if you carry it on to the small hours of the morning. To rob yourself of sleep, experts say, is a crime—against yourself!
AS with most crimes, there is a penalty, but the difference is that you have no hope at all of dodging this one. Sooner or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Aeroplane Crash
AN ever-increasing volume of smoke issued from the plane which began to descend. Evidently the pilot was attempting to land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lower S. Coast Road Is Closed
This rock is dangerous, about 30 tons of it overhanging the roadway is supported only by a weak seam of clay and until it is removed--which will take several weeks--the Lower South Coast Road between Coalcliff…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Truth About Motors U.S. Petrol Exports Take Big Drop
OFFICIAL FIGURES recently issued at Washington disclose that, during the first twelve months of the war, exports of principal petroleum products from U.S.A. dropped 22 per cent. as compared with the corresponding period preceding the war…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Seven Hurt in Motor Crash
TWO men, who have not yet been identified, and who are unconscious in Penrith Hospital with probable fractured skulls, were…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Nine Soldiers In Motor Van Crash MELBOURNE
Nine soldier passengers on a motor van were injured late this afternoon, when a tyre blow-out caused the vehicle to sway and overturn,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat may drive our motor cars!
WHAT are we going to do with all our wool, wheal, butter, and fruit? Our wharves and warehouses are jampacked to overflowing with these products because there are not enough ships to take them away…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Jack Davey's Day Yesterday I played bridge
I played at a private home. The idea was to swell the Lord Mayor's Fund. The idea was good. I personally…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Men, Girl Die on Road
Two men and a girl were killed in traffic accidental during the weekend. One man was killed and six injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Accidents. Soldier Killed at Penrith
Stephen White, of the 55/53rd Battalion, Wallgrove Camp, was killed and six other men were injured when a motor car and a motor cycle collided…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway Link Plan Rejected
Construction of a standard gauge railway line between Broken Hill and Port Pirie (S.A.), which was proposed two months ago by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Fadden's Greetings. Murray Bridge
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, to-night telegraphed the following message to Captain Collins:— "I desire to convey, on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →China's Supply Routes. Traffic on Burma Road "Greatly Reduced." LONDON, Feb. 10. (A.A.P.)
Quoting reports from Chungking, the Shanghai correspondent of the "New York Times" states that Japanese bombers have effectively wrecked all…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Tyres for New Zealand Ban on Australian Imports Lifted. AUCKLAND
The shortage of motor tyres in New Zealand will be relieved by a change made to-day in import licence conditions, permitting the importation from Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Battle-scarred Aeroplane
H.M.A.S. Sydney's Seagull amphibian plane was damaged three times--without casualties--during the warship's service in the Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Dead in Collision on Aerodrome Brisbane
Three Air Force trainees were killed and another was seriously injured when two machines collided on Amberly Aerodrome to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bayonet Charge Takes Peak Guarding Road to Asmara London
Brilliantly storming at bayonet point a mountain which rises 600 feet above Keren, in Eritrea, and fighting at 6000 feet above sea level, British troops now have the town at their mercy. Capture of the town will open the road to the capital, Asmara…
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