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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 194

Man Found on Road with Wrist Artery Severed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

ROY GRIFFITHS (28), Boronia St., Dee Why, was found on the roadway near his home last night with a wrist artery severed…

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Man Found on Road with Wrist Artery Severed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

ROY GRIFFITHS (28), Boronia St., Dee Why, was found on the roadway near his home last night with a wrist artery severed…

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Man Found on Road with Wrist Artery Severed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

ROY GRIFFITHS (28), Boronia St., Dee Why, was found on the roadway near his home last night with a wrist artery severed…

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Man Found on Road with Wrist Artery Severed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 7

ROY GRIFFITHS (28), Boronia St., Dee Why, was found on the roadway near his home last night with a wrist artery severed…

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Man Found on Road with Wrist Artery Severed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 7

ROY GRIFFITHS (28), Boronia St., Dee Why, was found on the roadway near his home last night with a wrist artery severed…

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Man Found on Road with Wrist Artery Severed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

ROY GRIFFITHS (28), Boronia St., Dee Why was found on the roadway near his home last night with a wrist artery severed…

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Treasury's "Key-hole Vision." Out-of-date Motor Taxation

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

News received from Liverpool states that a tax of £5 a car, big or small, was suggested as a fair alternative to the present…

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Terrific Air Blitz On Nazi Railways

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--Allied air forces launched a terrific attack yesterday against German road and rail systems from Holland to the Swiss frontier. They flew nearly 5000 sorties and…

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School Sport Ruined by Tram Ban: Masters Angry

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

Thousands of Sydney and suburban schoolchildren are i being deprived of their weekly sports, particularly swimming, by the Government's ban on special trams and omnibuses…

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Britain Will Test Post-War Motor, Air Rivals--Nuffield

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

Britain will have motors and aircraft as good as rival countries after the war, said Lord…

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Inquiry Into Railway Contracts Promised

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

CONTRACTS between the Sydney and Newcastle Transport Company and the New South Wales Commissioner for Railways were…

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Skin Graft Operation on Boy Injured by Tram

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

JOCK SMITH (11), Mill St., Hurlstone Park, who suffered extensive injuries to the leg when he slipped under a tram yesterday, returning…

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Skin Graft Operation on Boy Injured by Tram

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

JOCK SMITH (11), Mill St., Hurlstone Park, who suffered extensive injuries to the leg when he slipped under a tram yesterday, returning…

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Inquiry Into Railway Contracts Promised

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

CONTRACTS between the Sydney and Newcastle Transport Company and the New South Wales Commissioner for Railways were…

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Fairfield Railway Station

The Biz · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 1

Alterations to Fairfield railway station, suggested to the Commissioner by Fairfield Council, cannot be carried out at present, owing to shortage of manpower…

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Electric Motor For Lawn Mower

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 15

"Subscriber": Can you tell me what type of electric motor I would require to drive a lawn mower? The current here is AO 240 volt…

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Grain Alexandria Railway Goods Yard, Darling Harbour Landing and Sussex St. Market[?]

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 19

The State Marketing Bureau reports:—WHEAT: Continued light supplies of wheat were received at Alexandria, the total amounting to 3 trucks and 85 bags. These…

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Motors and Motoring Disposal of Surplus Army Vehicles

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 9

THE public has been [?] by hysterical statements published in the daily press about thousands of motor cars to be…

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Refrigerated Cargo and Passenger Motorships Two Recently Completed for Houlder Fleets

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

During recent months two large refrigerated cargo and passenger motor liners, named Condesa and Rippingham Grange, have been completed, the former for the Furness-Houlder Argentine Lines, Ltd., and the latter for the Houlder Line, Ltd.,…

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Three Trams Collide; 7 Injured

The Sun · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

Although three crowded trams were involved in a collision at Woollahra today, only seven…

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