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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1942

4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 216

Cargo Motorship a New Design

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 2

The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., have recently developed a new design of cargo motor ship which is of more than…

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Jockeys Form N.e.s. Motor Corps

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 8

Leading jockeys formed an N.E.S. motor corps during the weekend. Maurice McCarten was elected chief and Andy Knox his assistant…

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Railway Cricket Series Curtailed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 8

The third round of the Railway Institute midweek cricket premiership competition has been cancelled. Points at the end of the second…

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Trains, Trams Insufficient For Holiday

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3

Although political leaders and union officials appealed to workers engaged in war production to keep the factories…

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Baby Abandoned in Motor Float

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--A baby about 10 months old, was found abandoned in the driver's cabin of a cattle float in Crown Lane,…

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Railway Ban on Racehorses

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The ban placed on the carriage of racehorses by trains to Victorian and interstate stations has been described…

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Baby Abandoned in Motor Float

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--A baby girl, about 10 months old, was found abandoned in the driver's cabin of a cattle float in Crown Lane,…

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Trains, Trams Insufficient For Holiday

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3

Although political leaders and union officials appealed to workers engaged in war production to keep the factories…

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Russians Cut Vital Railway In New Drive

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3

The Russians are driving in an ever-deepening wedge from Khalm to midway between Moscow and Leningrad…

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Railway Ban on Racehorses

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The ban placed on the carriage of racehorses by trains to Victorian and interstate stations has been described…

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Baby Abandoned in Motor Float

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--A baby girl, about 10 months old, was found abandoned in the driver's cabin of a cattle float in Crown Lane,…

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Trains, Trams Insufficient For Holiday

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3

Although political leaders and union officials appealed to workers engaged in war production to keep the factories…

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Trains, Trams Insufficient For Holiday

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3

Although political leaders and union officials appealed, to workers engaged in war production to keep the factories…

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Baby Abandoned in Motor Float

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--A baby girl, about 10 months old, was found abandoned in the driver's cabin of a cattle float in Crown Lane,…

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Trains, Trams Insufficient For Holiday

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3

Although political leaders and union officials appealed to workers engaged in war production to keep the factories…

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Baby Abandoned in Motor Float

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--A baby girl, about 10 months old, was found abandoned to the driver's cabin of a cattle float in Crown Lane,…

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Soldier Falls From Brisbane Bridge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Frederick Charles Linden (27), a member of the A.I.F., was dragged out of the Brisbane River by wharf-laborers…

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Soldier Falls From Brisbane Bridge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Frederick Charles Linden (27), a member of the A.I.F., was dragged out of the Brisbane River by wharf-laborers…

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Russian People Are Taking The Road Back

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 8

MOSCOW, Tuesday.--We stopped our car on Friday in one of the main squares of Mojaisk, beside huge piles of ruins and scattered bricks, which three days earlier had represented the Cathedral of the Holy…

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Russian People Are Taking The Road Back

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 8

MOSCOW, Tuesday.--We stopped our car on Friday in one of the main squares of Mojaisk, beside huge piles of ruins and scattered bricks, which three days earlier had represented the Cathedral of the Holy…

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