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Railways, roads & transport, 1942

4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 216

High Road Not For Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- V.R.C. St. Leger winner, High Road, will not go to Sydney for the A.J.C. St. Leger…

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High Road Not For Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- V.R.C. St. Leger winner, High Road, will not go to Sydney for the A.J.C. St. Leger…

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Plan To Get Coirs Ready For Road

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 3

A scheme to revive the mobility of the 30,000 motor vehicles that have gone out of registration in N.S.W. in the last 12…

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Plan To Gel Cars Ready For Road

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 8

A scheme to revive the mobility of the 30,000 motor vehicles that have gone out of registration in N.S.W. in the last 12…

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Plan to Get Cars Ready For Road

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 3

A scheme to revive the mobility of the 30,000 motor vehicles that have gone out of registration in .N.S.W. in the last 12…

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Road Blackout To-night Headlamps to Be Masked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 5

From to-night all road traffic must be blacked out when travelling in areas from the coast to the Great Dividing; Range, in…

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Coup Fails Skipton Beaten High Road Easily Wins St. Leger Our Own Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A feature of the V.R.C. St. Leger on Saturday was the unsuccessful plunge on Skipton, who was…

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Threw Lysol at Tram Man

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 5

"WATT said we will do a tramguard over tonight. He said we will get some, lysol and throw, it into his eyes, and…

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Threw Lysol at Tram Man

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 5

"WATT said we will do a tramguard over tonight. He said we will get some lysol and throw it into his eyes and…

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Stop Press 'Phone: M2406 Germans' Aerodrome Battered

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Four Stormovik (tank-buster) planes, escorted by nine fighters, destroyed 10 German transport planes and two…

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Racing Man to Train Own Team

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 8

Owner Mr. T. W. Gleeson will in future train his horses, Petruchio, Joseleta, and Fairy Glass. The horses were transferred from…

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To Train V. D. C. As Guerrillas

The Sun · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 7

A start has been made to train specially selected VDC leaders in the Eastern Command in guerrilla warfare, which will…

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Japs Cut Key Road In Burma LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 1

Japanese forces have temporarily succeeded in cutting the Burma trunk Road north of Pequ, it…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia Blue Funnel Motorship. Sailed Fremantle. Dalgety & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 3

W. Thomas & Co., 15,032 bgs, 666 sks flour (375 tons) Great Southern Roller Flour Mills, 7146 bgs flour (178 tons)…

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Former Railway Officer Cremated

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 6

The cremation took place at Northern Suburbs Crematorium yesterday of Mr. Charles Hodgson, former Railways Area Commissioner and Chief Traffic…

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Motor Firm Making Fibre From Beans

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 5

NEW YORK.--The Ford Motor Company has begun production of a synthetic fibre developed from soyabeans. The material is similar to…

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Motor Torpedo Boats Hit Enemy Tankers

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Last night our patrols of light craft in the English Channel located two enemy tankers of medium size in a convoy strongly escorted by enemy small craft, states an Admiralty communique…

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If You Go by Bus or Tram, Read This

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 6

THE Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways has directed attention to the need for special care by tram and bus travellers at…

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Japs Claim Burma Railway Line Cut

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Japanese claim to have cut the railway from Rangoon to Lashio, where the Burma Road begins, at several points north of Pegu (44 miles north of Rangoon)…

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If You Go by Bus or Tram, Read This

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 5

THE Commissioner for Read Transport and Tramways has directed attention to the need for special care by tram and bus travellers at…

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