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Railways, roads & transport, 1942

4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 216

Japs Claim Burma Railway Cut Patrols Active Along Vital River Enemy Masses for New Drive

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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Japan Claims Burma Railway Cut Patrols Active Along Vital River Enemy Preparing for New Attack

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 or 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 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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Japan Claims Burma Railway Cut Patrols Active Along Vital River Enemy Preparing for New Attack

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 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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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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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 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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Punters Have Hard Road

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 4

What a hard track the punter has to toil along was further exemplified by the Newmarket Handicap result. So lightly was the winner,…

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Thrust at Rangoon Halted Big Enemy Air Losses Fight for Burma Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 9

LONDON, March 3 (A.A.P.).—The Japanese offensive aimed at Rangoon has been definitely halted for eight days along the Sittang River and unofficially is considered likely to lag for another week before the…

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Luxury Roads Big Wartime Waste of Public Money by Tories in N.S.W. Scathing Rebuke by Labor Premier W. J. McKELL. For The Australian Worker

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 2

GOVERNMENT administration, at a time when the nation is at war and fighting for…

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German Moves in Norway Railways for Army

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 10

LONDON, March 3. (A.A.P.).— The Norwegian Agency in London, quoting the "Sevenska Dagbladet," says that the Germans…

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Motorists Fined

The Sun · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 2

Twenty motorists were fined 10s each, with 5s 6d costs, at Parramatta Police Court today, for not dimming or dipping their…

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Mr. J. H. Tonkin, M.L.C., outlines a plasm to obtain-- Cheap Motor Fuels From Powerhouse Coal

The Sun · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 5

AUSTRALIA could obtain ample supplies of vaporiser fuel for the motor industry, as well as sufficient producer gas fuel, if crude oil were extracted from the coal now being used in power plants. This is the considered opinion of Mr. J…

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Man's Leg Cut Off By Tram

The Sun · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 4

Jammed under a tram, with his right leg severed below the knee, William Outtersider, 35, of Napier- road, Malabar, talked…

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Motor-cycle Rough Riders

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 8

SPECTACULAR cycle spill at recent A.I.F. sports meeting in Syria. Australian soldiers showed in sporting events lessons learned in hard desert fighting…

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Tram Severs Leg, But Man Chats To Helpers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 4

Watched by horrified tram passengers, a Central District Ambulance officer crawled under a jacked up tram to give first aid to a bus conductor who had his right leg severed when struck in Anzac Parade. Randwick, this…

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Tram Severs Leg, But Man Chats To Helpers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 4

Watched by horrified. tram passengers, a Central District Ambulance officer crawled under a jacked up tram to give first aid to a bus conductor who had his right leg severed when struck in Anzac Parade, Randwick, this…

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Tram Severs Leg,but Man Chats to Helpers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 2

Watched by horrified tram passengers, a Central District Ambulance officer crawled under a jacked up tram to give first aid to a bus conductor who . had his right leg severed when struck in Anzac Parade, Randwick, this…

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Tram Severs Leg, But Man Chats To Helpers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 4

Watched by horrified tram passengers, a Central District Ambulance officer crawled under a jacked up tram to give first aid to a bus conductor who had his right leg, ' severed when- struck in Anzac Parade, Randwick, this…

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