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Railways, roads & transport, 1943

4,054 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 203

Clothes Ration Puts Tramps Off Road

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday. -- For the first time on record Britain's tramp population is below the 1000 mark…

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Clothes Ration Puts Tramps Off Road

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday. -- For the first time on record Britain's tramp population is below the 1000 mark…

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Comforts Fund Special Bridge Classes

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 4

Novices who wish to be initiated into the mysteries of bridge, will soon get their education free at special classes to…

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Killed by Fall From Train

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 8

Clifford Stanfield, 32, of Quigg Street, Lakemba, was killed yesterday when he fell from a train passing over Tasker Park Bridge, between Canterbury and…

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Allies Travel Rocky Road To Tripoli

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

THIS OFFICIAL British Radio picture shows the rock-strewn country over which the British Eighth Army had to travel to…

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Four G.P.S. Players Train With Easts

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 11

Four youths who played football with Sydney High School last year trained with Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club last night. They are B. Hopkins (half). R…

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Top.—“THE Scorched Earth” Policy Applied to Burma. Bottom.—HOW the Burma Road Was Built

Construction · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

The case for aid to China is now being put forward in America by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in person. Madam could more truthfully say “you need China’s help, you cannot afford to neglect it,” and say as Churchill said, “give us the tools and we shall finish the job.” However, anything short of a transport service by giant aircraft operating from India would meet with extraordinary…

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"We Are Frequently Threatened with Physical Violence" Difficulties Of Lidcombe Railway Staff Porter Makes Appeal to Magistrate

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 1

"We do our best to protect the lives of these men by trying to stop them from crossing the line; but we are frequently threatened with physical violence and also have abuse heaped upon us. Most of the staff at Lidcombe are in the elderly stage,…

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Stole Oil for His Motor-cycle Shortage of Forty Gallons

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 1

A month's supply of crude oil having been used in a week at Clyde Engineering Works, an investigation was made, and there…

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Steam Tram to Go March 18—Or Sooner

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 1

The steam tram service at Parramatta will terminate on March 18—or earlier, if necessary…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia Motorship. Sailed Fremantle. R. G. Lynn, Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

Weatralian Mill Products, Ltd., 96,316 sacks flour S Shipper, 707 cres frosen lamb STEAMSHIP…

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Railwaymen Reject Award

The Sun · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

The ARU, at a meeting today, rejected the terms of a new traffic award, said the secretary of the union (Mr. Ferguson)…

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Mother, Daughter Hurt Alighting From Tram

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 7

TWO women were injured yesterday afternoon when they alighted from the wrong side of a tram and were struck by another tram coming…

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Wutherill Park Roads

The Biz · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 3

Mr. J. E. True, of Wetherill Park. in letter to Fairfield Council, stated that [?] roads in Wetherill Park were in a deplorable slate. The roads in the town…

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The Road To Unity

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 10

Q.: "If this substituting of the word 'in' for the word 'of' were done, there would be a great opportunity to unite all nations in one Church…

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Target Near the Burma Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 5

SOMEWHERE IN CHINA, March 9.—"Squirley Shirley" rose slowly from the aerodrome, clearing the higher ground at…

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R.A.F. Blasts Rommel's Army Retreat Road Littered With Dead, Wreckage

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.--R.A.F. fighters and bombers are rapidly turning Field-Marshal Rommel's retreat in south-east Tunisia into a rout…

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Motors & Motoring Farm Tractor

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 7

TO-DAY Mr. E. T. Brown in his tractor article adds to recent remarks on the operation of the magneto. Referring to secondary winding, Mr…

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Motor Firm Devotes Energies To War Effort

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 11

WAR has forced on us an entirely now sot of values. Personal considerations have been temporarily put aside and we expect all…

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Railway Ropes Disappear

Nepean Times · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 1

The Department of Railways proceeded against Alonzo Cooper, at Penilth Police Court on Thursday, on a charge that on January 29, at Mt…

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