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Railways, roads & transport, 1941

4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 248

All Love Beaten by High Road

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 14

HIGH ROAD beating Australia's crack two-year-old filly, All Love, in the Ascot Vale Stakes at Flemington yesterday.--Picturegram…

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Hawkesbury River Bridge Work — Army Officers Return From Malaya — New Military Hospital in Use

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 12

One of the two main spans of the new Hawkesbury River Bridge, which is being built in sections at the Clyde Engineering Works. It will be dismantled and reassembled on its foundations in the river. Members of the Anglo-Greek War Council at one of their meetings in Athens recently,…

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Defeat of All Love. Protest Dismissed. High Road's Good Finish. (From Our Special Representative.) MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 12

The Sydney filly, All Love, starting at 6 to 1 on, failed to carry a penalty to success in the Ascot Vale Stakes to-day, and…

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Dog That Likes Tram Men

The Sun · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 4

Champion tram-scaler of the Western Suburbs, unofficial nightwatchman at the Enfield Depot, and…

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"Accident Ended Skill At Bridge"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 7

Miss Nance Fallon, 61, nurse and bridge teacher, of Bellevue Hill, said in the Supreme Court yesterday that since an…

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Skelton Gets Permit to Train

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 16

The A.J.C. committee yesterday granted R. W. Skelton a permit to train. Skelton was disqualified for 12…

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Contract Bridge Timing Is Hard to Recognise

The Sun · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 4

Difficult play to recognise in bridge is that which involves "timing," or strategically deciding the order…

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American Aeroplane Output. "Previous Effort Outmoded." New York, March 7. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 14

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, who is steadily recovering from critical injuries which he received in a plane crash at…

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Mr. F. W. Hughes. Will Train Horses Pending Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 16

Mr. F. W. Hughes, the well-known racehorse owner-breeder and Sydney business man, yesterday notified the secretary of the Australian Jockey Club that he would…

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British Tanks Make Great Dash. Road to Tripoli Cut. London, March 7. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 13

A dramatic 150-mile dash across the desert by British tanks to cut off the Italians south of Benghazi was completed with only 30 minutes to spare…

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Official Pictures of Training in Netherlands East Indies' Navy — Motor Torpedo-boat in Action

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 16

New pictures of naval training in the Netherlands East Indies show the marines. Here they are fording a river in full kit. A marine operating a medium machine-gun while engaged in exercises ashore…

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Australian Motorists' Petrol. New Preference Issue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 11

The object of the issue by the Australian Motorists' Co. Ltd. of 100,000 6 per cent. fixed cumulative preference shares of £1 each is to provide additional…

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Our Itinerant Government Get Back To Canberra! Once Satisfied With Railway Pass

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 5

SENATOR FOLL (Minister for Interior) in his capacity of Minister for Information, apparently, says that as soon as…

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Man waiting for train run down

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 5

BERRY, Saturday. -- Charles Kinnear, of Cow Pastures Road, Horsley, was fatally injured today when he fell under the Daylight Express as…

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Engine Chased Train Up Hill; Caught It--Crash

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 1

A lone engine, with a forgotten guard on board, chasing a goods train in the fog along a curving mountain track, whistle blowing to attract the attention of the train ahead, and then--crash! THIS was the dramatic…

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Fell Under Train, Man Fatally Hurt BERRY

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 2

Falling beneath the wheels of a train at Berry railway station today, Charles Kinnear, of Cow Pastures-road, Horsley, was dragged 50…

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What I saw along the Burma Road

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 2

Only a few months ago the Burma Road was the most talked-of highway in the world. It's still one of the most important, for over it every day pass long convoys of motor trucks loaded with materials, of war for China's armies…

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-- and this is the train he'd like to catch

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 9

ONE glance at the map on this page should tell you the whole story, about Hitler's drive on Turkey…

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Annoyed by Railway Dept. Katoomba

Truth · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 19

ALLEGATIONS of touting on the Katoomba railway station by some carriers were made when a deputation of carriers waited on…

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"Girls of the Road."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 3

The male hoboes of America have been the subject of many American films, and in Columbia's "Girls of the Road" the female section of a big national problem…

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