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Railways, roads & transport, 1941

4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 248

Raider Victims in Sydney Experiences Told While Big Crowd Welcomes "Emira Island Train"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 5

Cheering and waving, bearded men and tired women and children in odd clothing leaned from the "Emira Island train" to receive Sydney's greeting at Central railway station yesterday…

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Social and Personal. Motored to Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 5

Dr. and Mrs. Victor Delaney of Frankston Victoria, arrived in Sydney yesterday by car. They are visiting Mrs. Delaney's mother, Lady Waley, of…

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Motorists Set New Records Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 3

Despite the war and petrol rationing. Victorian motorists set the following records last year:-- Highest revenue for 12 months…

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Motorist May Have Hidden Boy's Body

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 4

Blood found on a road may indicate that, after Desmond Clarke, 2 12, was killed by a car, the driver removed the body to delay discovery…

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Van Breakdown Delays Mail Train

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 5

The main Sydney-Melbourne railway line was blocked for six hours when an axle of a van on the Rand-Henty train broke on Saturday afternoon…

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Train Delayed by Floods. 8 HOURS 45 Minutes Late. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 7

Flood waters and washaways between Parkes and Condobolin delayed a train with 400 holiday-makers returning to Broken Hill from Sydney to start work to-day…

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For Women. Ambulance Drivers at Motor Works

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 3

MISS ALICE GOULD, on top, and MISS PEGGY BARRON underneath the rear axle of a car at the Ford Works at Homebush yesterday, when 18 N.E.S. Ambulance Drivers began a special course of instruction; MISSES M. STARKEY, M. HILLESS, E. STUART, and N. BUZACOTT fitting the bonnet; and MISSES G. THATCHER, M. MANSFIELD, and W. THATCHER with the bonnet and front piece…

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Stir Over Petrol Threat Unjust To Penalise N.S.W., Motoring Officials Declare

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 5

New South Wales should not be penalised because other States had failed to cut petrol consumption by 33 per cent., said the secretary of the Associated Motor Transport of…

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Assembled Motor Trucks

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 10

Eighteen women ambulance drivers of the National Emergency Transport Services began work at the Ford Motors workshops at Homabush yesterday…

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Many Roads Closed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 11

The N.R.M.A. reports that the Mitchell Highway is impassable between Molong and Wellington. Serious landslides occurred on the serpentine bends 13 miles north of…

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Fatal Train Jump By Soldier Escapee

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- Private William James Berman, 22, a member of the 20th Battalion, A.I.F., attempted to escape from his military escort by…

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Collapse of Big Rail Bridge Isolates North

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 3

Collapse of a large three-span steel and concrete bridge on the main northern line between Braefield and Quirindi in a flood to-day left northwestern and northern parts of the State cut off from…

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Roads on Stock Reserves. Skim-ploughing "Absurdity." NARRABRI

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 8

The "Narrabri P.P. Board has decided to protest against the practice of skimploughing reserves on which roads are constructed, the material so obtained…

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Tobruk Aerodrome Captured. 40 Abandoned Planes. British "At Door of Town." Australians Sorting Out Booty at Bardia. London, January 7. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 11

It was officially announced in Cairo this afternoon that the Italians had abandoned £1 Adem aerodrome, the main landing field for the important Libyan naval base of Tobruk. British troops who occupied it captured 40 planes which had been…

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Motor Lawn Mower Suggestion to Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 2

"Owing to the increased quantity of lawns due to Macarthur Park bowling green coming on", the engineer (Mr. G. Downes) suggested to Granville…

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Export Manifests Sydney Amended. Shaw-savill Motor Ship. Sailed Sydney. Dalgety & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 7560 bgs wheat (615 tons) S Shippers, 320 bgs wheaten starch (20 tons), 550 loose drysalted hides, 28…

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Handbook As Aid to Motorists

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 7

In an effort to reduce the number of road accidents, the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. C. N. Neale) has had published a new motor traffic…

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Book of Rules for Motorists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 8

A new "Motor Traffic Handbook," which will be issued to motorists instead of copies of the Motor Traffic Act and Regulations, has been published by the…

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Cinderella's Column. Cross Roads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 20

Dear Boys and Girls, Once more we take up our interests together in this column. At the start of any new term, there is an impulse…

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Safety on Roads for Children

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 18

Thoughtful and careful parents are continually instructing their children in the proper manner of crossing roads in the presence of motor traffic…

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