Protecting Bus, Train Windows
WINDOWS in trains are not being specially treated against bomb splintering because every window has a shutter, which should be pulled…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 216
Protecting Bus, Train Windows
WINDOWS in trains are not being specially treated against bomb splintering because every window has a shutter, which should be pulled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Risks on Roads at Night
An urgent appeal to road users to exercise the greatest caution was made today by the Chief of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →America's New "Burma Road" Against Japan
WASHINGTON, Monday--"New Burma Road" is unofficial title for the new Alaska-Yukon Highway to be built this summer through Canada by American army engineers, and costing from 25,000,000 dollars (£7,500,000)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sand in Motor at Mine
Somebody during the week-end put sand in the bearings of the motor which drives the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anti-tank Shell Found on Tramline at Geelong Melbourne
A fully-charged armor-piercing anti-tank shell Was picked up a fete feet in front of a tramcar in Geelong today. When the motorman stepped out to switch the points at an intersection the shell was lying on the track…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Long Tramp For Safety
Women and children who tramped 50 miles through the Borneo jungle and swamps to escape the Japanese have arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North Sydney to Train in Gym
North Sydney Rugby League Club will train tonight in the Manresa Hall gymnasium. The dressing accommodation at North…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Women's News Australian Soldiers Drove Last Train Kuala Lumpur Bombed
When Mrs. J. E. Von Mullen decided to leave Kuala Lumpur on one of the last trains she found on her arrival at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pleasure Motoring In Britain May Cease
LONDON, Monday. -- The British Government has decided upon new restrictions on petrol for private motoring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anti-Tank Shell Oil Tramway Track
MELBOURNE, Monday. -- When the driver of a Geelong tram stepped out of his cabin to change the points on the road to Newtown today he saw…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trams and Buses Earn £15,452
METROPOLITAN transport is a highly remunerative business, as revealed in the Auditor-General's annual report, but working costs and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Interest Absorbs Railways Net Surplus
Gross earnings of the Railways Department in the year ended June 30, 1911, covered working expenses with a surplus equal to £4 1s per cent, on capital…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Women Fight on Railway Station
A FIGHT between two women on Homebush railway station was mentioned at the Quarter Sessions today, when Mrs. Pearl Kirwan (28),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Women Fight on Railway Station
A FIGHT between, two women on Homebush railway station was mentioned at the Quarter Sessions today, when Mrs. Pearl Kirwan (28),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trams and Buses Earn £15,452
METROPOLITAN AN transport is a highly remunerative business, as revealed in the Auditor-General's annual report, but working costs and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stop Press Gap Threat to Railway Broken
LONDON, Tuesday. -- Burma Radio says Japanese threat to important rail junction north of Rangoon eliminated by heavy,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Trams and Buses Earn £15,452
METROPOLITAN transport is a A highly remunerative business, as revealed in the Auditor-General's annual report, but working costs and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →American Roads
According to reports received by the United States Public Roads Administration the various State authorities spent £313,000,000 on highways during 1940 of the total income of £323,000,000,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Women Train to Fight Japs
Nearly 60 members of the Women's Cavalry Corps have offered their services to the Australian People's Defence…
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