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Railways, roads & transport, 1944

4,651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 233

Trammies Plan Rest Sulky Ride, Hair-do's

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2

"I'm going to the meeting, and then I'll hire a sulky and drive up and down annoying everyone," said Miss Francie Burgess, tram conductress, asked today what she planned to do during the 24-hour stoppage planned by tram and bus…

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Pickets May Me On Lines To Stop Trams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 3

Strikers who will turn out for picket duty at the Rushcutters Bay Tram Depot at 5 a.m. tomorrow will come in old clothes prepared to lie across the lines to prevent any movement of trams, said the chairman of the depot's…

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Tram Pickets to Lie Over Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 3

Strikers who will turn out for picket duty at the Rushcutters Bay Tram Depot at 5 a.m. tomorrow will come in old clothes prepared to lie across the lines to prevent any movement of trams, said the chairman of…

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Trammies To Hike To Leichhardt

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 3

OFFICIALS of the combined tram and bus unions have arranged for tomorrow's stop work meeting to be held at the…

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Trammies To Hike To Leichhardt

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 3

OFFICIALS of the combined tram and bus unions have arranged for tomorrow's stop work meeting to be held at the…

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Pickets May Lie On Lines To Stop Trams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 3

Strikers who will turn out for picket duty at the Rushcutters Bay Tram Depot at 5 a.m. tomorrow will come in old clothes prepared to lie across the lines to prevent any movement of trams, said the chairman of the depot's…

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Trammies Plan Rest. Sulky Ride, Hair-do's

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2

"I'm going to the meeting, and then I'll hire a sulky and drive up and down annoying everyone," said Miss Francie Burgess, tram conductress, asked today what she planned to do during the 24-hour stoppage planned by tram and bus…

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Trammies Plan Rest Sulky Ride, Hair-do's

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2

"I'm going to the meeting, and then I'll hire a sulky and drive up and down annoying everyone," said Miss Francie Burgess, tram conductress, asked today what she planned to do during the 24-hour stoppage planned by tram and bus…

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Train Manners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 6

SOME Sydney train and tram passengers show an utter disregard for the feelings and comfort of fellow travellers. Perhaps the most…

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Train Manners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 6

SOME Sydney train and tram passengers show an utter disregard for the feelings and comfort of fellow travellers. Perhaps the most…

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Train Manners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 6

SOME Sydney train and tram passengers show an utter disregard for the feelings and comfort of fellow travellers. Perhaps the most…

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Train Manners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 6

SOME Sydney train and tram passengers show an utter disregard for the feelings and comfort of fellow travellers. Perhaps the most…

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Train Manners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 6

SOME Sydney train and tram passengers show an utter disregard for the feelings and comfort of fellow travellers. Perhaps the most…

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Australian Train English Derby Hope

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 12

LONDON, Wednesday. -- An Australian, Captain Oswald Bell, former Queenslander, has a good chance of training the English…

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Road Trip by Racehorse Alleged Breaches of Regulations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—In the Third City Court to-day John Nicholson, of Allandale stock farm, near Mentone, pleaded not…

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Fifth Army Thrusts Inland Patrols Now Threaten Rome Road

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.--Allied invasion troops have pushed at least 12 miles inland from their beachhead south of Rome, it is officially…

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Tram and Motorbus Strike Midnight Stoppage Mr. Curtin's Security Order

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 9

Although the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, issued an order under National Security Regulations late yesterday afternoon directing tram and bus employees in Sydney and Newcastle to remain at work to-day,…

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Doctor’s Home and Surgery, Burke Road, North Camberwell, Victoria

Construction · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 3

A corner site is usually selected by the suburban doctor for his residence because it is more conspicuous than an inside block and also allows the building to be planned so that there is a separate entrance to the surgery and the residential section. The doctor’s residence illustrated is in a new suburban area which was rapidly developing in the immediate pre-war years. The surgery, it will be seen, has been…

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Trespass on Railway Premises Commissioner's Warning

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 8

Trespassing on railway premises is becoming very prevalent, and special steps are being taken to stop it…

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Overseas Export Manifests New South Wales Motor Vessel. Sailed Sydney. Blue Star Line, agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 4

S Shippers, 19 cs casings, 22 bls rabbit skins, 250 cs meat extract, 9 bls basils, 38 bls sole leather, 75 cs leather, 18 bis rabbit skins, 117 bls…

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