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Railways, roads & transport, 1942

4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 216

Female Labor: Less Pay Cabinet May Curb Railway Commissioner

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 2

"There is a growing tendency amongst certain employers to use the war as a means of introducing cheap labor into industry," said the Minister for Labor (Mr. Knight) to-day…

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Back To Motor Buggies New York

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 2

The president of General Motors (Mr. Wilson) is seeking Government authority to produce tyreless…

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Motoring Difficulties

The St George Call · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

The acting general secretary of the N.R.M.A., Mr. H. E. Richards, has stated that as a further reduction of 20 percent in the petrol ration had been officially…

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Race Trams to Be Run

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 5

Special trams would run to Randwick and Harold Park races tomorrow, but no special buses, the State Transport Minister…

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FIFTY-FIFTY Why Not Cooler Tram Conductors? Letterettes in Fifty Words Coats Off

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 7

Why don't tram conductors and drivers demand the right to work with coats off? Last Sunday, on the…

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Special Race Trams Minister Defends His Policy

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said today that his decision to restore the special race trams did not mean…

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Race Trams Defended By Transport Minister

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 7

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said today that his decision to restore the special race trams did not mean that he disagreed with the Prime Minister's opinion that the Japanese threat to Australia was serious…

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Race Trams Defended By Transport Minister

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 7

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said today that his decision to restore the special race trams did not mean that he disagreed with the Prime Minister's opinion that the Japanese threat to Australia was serious…

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Race Trams Defended By Transport Minister

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 7

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said today that his decision to restore the special race trams did not mean that he disagreed with the Prime Minister's opinion that the Japanese threat to Australia was serious…

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Race Trams Defended By Transport Minister

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 7

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said today that his decision to restore the special race trams did not mean that he disagreed with the Prime Minister's opinion that the Japanese threat to Australia was serious…

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Schoolboys Steal From Aerodrome

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 14

LONDON, Jan. 9 (A.A.P.).—Four schoolboys were each fined 10/ in the London Juvenile Court for stealing first-aid outfits to the value of £6,…

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Donald Duck -- Train Wreckers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 5

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"Happy Valley" Now Model Villages New Houses, Roads, And Electric Power

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 19

DEPRESSION years created in Australia scores of "Happy Valleys"--bag and tin humpy settlements. The depression went, but the "Happy Valleys" remained on. Inhabitants had grown to like him, and as they were…

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Cook's Teetotaller? Ran First Rail Excursion Hot, tired and dusty, Thomas Cook sank into a chair. It was a grilling summer afternoon, and he had just finished a fifteen-mile tramp from Market Harborough to Leicester, to address a temperance meeting

The World's News · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 30

IN a few weeks he was due to forward to an even longer address a similar meeting at Loughborough, and did not look…

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Race Trams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 16

The Minister for Transport, Mr. O'Sullivan, stated yesterday that reasonable transport arrangements had been made for the benefit of…

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Minister Opposes Railway Chief Pay of Women Cooks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 15

The Minister for Labour and Industry. Mr. Knight said yesterday that the Government would have to take strong action to block an application…

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Special Trams for Races Not Restored to Former Extent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 15

There was no possibility of special transport to racecourses being restored to its former extent, the Minister for…

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Motor Limits Imposed Now in U.S.A. WASHINGTON

The Sun · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 3

The Secretary for the Interior (Mr. Ickes) has proposed a 40-miles-an-hour speed limit on United States highways, in order…

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Special Race Trams Today

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 5

Special trams will run to Rand-wick races today, but the service will be limited. Announcing this last night the…

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Hundred trams run to races

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 6

A hundred special trams-- only 30 fewer than in normal days--ran to Randwick races yesterday…

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