St. George Motor Boat Club
Despite the absence of several of the club's speed boats last Saturday at Port Hacking, the speed boats contesting the race for the McCue Trophy on the club's…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 248
MOTORING Forecast Phones In Future Cars
Use of radio receiving sets on cars has grown so fast recently that experts believe that soon the motorist will be able to use radio-telephone transmitters and receivers…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"Girls of the Road"
IN America, there's a special brand of floating population composed entirely of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Nine Men Injured in Crash. Tree Saves Bus on Mountain Road. NEWCASTLE
A tree six inches in diameter prevented a bus containing 28 relief workers from crashing hundreds of feet down the side of Buladelah Mountain to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Science AND Invention for the Motorist
Headlight-lens holders that are hard to remove can be started easily with an old scrap of garden hose about twothirds as long as the circumference of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Motor Tax Rebates. Extension to All Defence Forces
The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, said last night that rebates of registration charges on motor vehicles would be granted to members of all defence forces for the period…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →From a Rambler's notebook Train Journey
HAVING recently come back from a very enjoyable holiday up at Molong, I think perhaps you might be interested in reading about the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elderly woman dies after fall from train
COOTAMUNDRA, Saturday. -- "Can't anybody get me out of this!" shouted Miss Kate Kildea, 73, when she fell between the Wallendbeen railway platform and a train last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Public Motor Driver No. 1, Cremorne Man
DISTINCTION of being the first man in Australia to be issued with a number plate, and the first to hold a driver's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Road Safety Pioneer Dies
Road safety pioneer, Mr. H. H. Newell, 62, New South Wales Commissioner for Main Roads, died late on Saturday night, at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Accidents. Blind Woman Killed
A blind woman, Mrs. Lydia Evans, 46, of no fixed address, was knocked down by a motor car and killed in Bayswater Road, Rushcutter Bay, at 2.15…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MR. H. H. Newell Dead. Head of State Main Roads Board
The Commissioner for Main Roads, Mr. H. H. Newell, died at his residence, Morambro, 89 Cabramatta Road, Mosman, on Saturday night. He was 62…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Turks Train Parachute Troops. From Our Own Correspondent. London, March 16
Turkey is the latest country known to be training parachute troops as a military weapon. Joint exercises by parachute troops and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Oil Train Derailed in Bulgaria. Sofia, March 16. (A.A.P.)
Ten persons were killed and 14 were injured and 23 tank trucks were destroyed when an oil train from Rumania was derailed at Oboriste, near the Rumanian border…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rome Says America Has Declared War Sees U.S. Bridge Of Ships Talk Gives Balkans Fresh Hope Berlin Rages: "Nothing Can Save England" LONDON
American soldiers will soon enter the war both in Europe and Asia, is how the official Rome radio interprets President Roosevelt's uncompromising speech pledging total American aid to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram and Car Collide
When a car and a tram collided in Gardeners Road[?] Rosebery, on Saturday, the driver of the car. Neil Bowler, of College Street Newtown, suffered severe head injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railways Sabotaged LONDON
Norway's railway services are being drastically curtailed, state reports from Oslo, the capital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Fee Rebate for All Army Men
Car owners in the R.A.A.F., militia, home defence forces, and Volunteer Defence Corps are to be allowed a rebate on motor registration fees…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Surfboat Crews Train Together
Surfboat crews for the New South Wales championships on Saturday have realised the disadvantages of solo training…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →U.s. Train Sabotaged
NEW YORK, Monday.--Sabotage caused a train to plunge into the Ohio River at Baden (Pennsylvania) last…
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