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Railways, roads & transport, 1942

4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 216

Girl Sailors Train In Navy Tradition

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 3

OFFICER CADETS of the W.R.E.N .S. parade near a gun used in Nelson's Victory, at the Battle of Trafalgar. The girls are being trained at the Royal Naval College in an atmosphere of naval tradition…

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Mystery of the Week Admiral off the bridge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 4

FULL CRASH DIVE, by Allen R. Bosworth, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. IS there aesthetic…

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"If Australia Falls Road To America Open To Japs" Curtin Talks to U.S. PEOPLE

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA, Saturday.--"Australia is the last bastion between the west coast of America and the Japanese. If Australia goes the Americas are wide open." This grim warning to the people of America was given…

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"If Australia Falls Road To America Open To Japs" Curtain Talks to U.S. PEOPLE

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA, Saturday.--"Australia is the lost bastion between the west coast of America and the Japanese If Australia goes the Americas are wide open"' This grim warning to the people of America was given…

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"If Australia Falls Road To America Open To Japs" Curtin Talks to U.S. PEOPLE

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA, Saturday--"Australia is the last bastion between the west coast of America and the Japanese, if Australia goes the Americas are wide open." This grim warning to the people of America was given…

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"If Australia Falls Road To America Open To Japs" Curtin Talks to U.S. PEOPLE

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA, Saturday,--"Australia is the lost bastion between the west coast of America and the Japanese. If Australia goes the Americas are wide open." This grim warning to the people of America was given…

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Tram As Gift to Help Drive for Scrap Metal

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday --A tram which after many years' service had been bought for 5s as a dining room" for workmen, has been given…

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Tram As Gift to Help Drive for Scrap Metal

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A tram which after many years' service had been bought for 5s as a dining room" for workmen has been given…

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Tram As Gift to Help Drive for Scrap Metal

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 12

LONDON, Saturday.--A tram which after many years' service had been bought for 5s as a "dining-room" for workmen, has been given…

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Tram As Gift to Help Drive for Scrap Metal

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A tram which after many years' service had been bought for 5s as a "dining room" for workmen, has been given…

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"The Ghost Train"

Truth · Sunday 15 March 1942 · page 23

IN their anxiety to use the comic talents of Arthur Askey, the script writers of the hardy old perennial at the Embassy have…

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Wife Sights Hubby and Woman From Train Says Assault with Bottles Followed

Truth · Sunday 15 March 1942 · page 28

WHAT impulse caused Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Smith, of Park Street, Auburn, to look out of the window of her train as it pulled into Homebush Railway Station about 6.15 one evening last October? It may have…

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Fall in Motor Registrations

The Sun · Sunday 15 March 1942 · page 2

Motor vehicle registrations in New South Wales totalled 281,015 on March 1. This represented a decrease of 35,129. mostly cars…

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No women tram guards for Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 March 1942 · page 18

Sydney will not follow Melbourne in employing women on buses and trains "unless the stage is reached where it cannot be avoided."…

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Man's Body on Railway Line Fall From Train is Suggested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1942 · page 5

Police are trying to ascertain whether a man whose body was found on the railway line near No. 3 tunnel at Newnes Junction…

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Killed In Fall From Train

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 March 1942 · page 5

A man, believed to De William George, 62, retired miner, of Kandos, was found dead at the end of a railway tunnel near Newnes Junction early…

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Stop Press 'Phone: M2406 U.s. to Build Canadian Road

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 March 1942 · page 1

OTTAWA, Sunday. -- United States men and equipment have arrived in British Columbia to build a new highway [?] Alaska…

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Prosecution Of Motorists

The Sun · Monday 16 March 1942 · page 3

More summonses will be issued against persons who, last week, failed to show tall-lights on their parked motor vehicles, the…

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Raid Hint No. 66: Switch Off Motor Off Refrigerator

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 March 1942 · page 7

IT is important that you carry out out the following instructions to minimise the risk of people being affected by leakages of refrigerant gas…

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15 Hurt, Train Capsize

The Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Fifteen persons were injured when the Heath-cote-Kilmore rail motor left the line a mile out…

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