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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 194

Train-driver "Brushed" Munro Once Preliminary Fighter Now Portrait Painter

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 February 1945 · page 13

From preliminary fighter to portrait painter-- that is the record of 45-years-old Joseph William Dainer, of Petersham. Twenty years ago Dainer was fighting six-round…

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Train-driver "Brushed" Munro Once Preliminary Fighter Now Portrait Painter

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 February 1945 · page 13

From preliminary fighter to portrait painter-- that is the record of 45-years-old Joseph William Dainer, of Petersham. Twenty years ago Dainer was fighting six-round…

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Train-driver "Brushed" Munro Once Preliminary Fighter Now Portrait Painter

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 February 1945 · page 13

From preliminary fighter to portrait painter-- that is the record of 45-years-old Joseph William Dainer, of Petersham. Twenty years ago Dainer was fighting six-round…

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Train-driver "Brushed" Munro Once Preliminary Fighter Now Portrait Painter

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 February 1945 · page 13

From preliminary fighter to portrait painter-- that is the record of 45-years-old Joseph William Dainer, of Petersham. Twenty years ago Dainer was fighting six-round…

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Train-driver "Brushed" Munro Once Preliminary Fighter Now Portrait Painter

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 February 1945 · page 11

From preliminary tighter to portrait painter-- that is the record of 45-years-old Joseph William Dainer, of Petersham. Twenty years ago Dainer was fighting six-round…

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Train-driver "Brushed" Munro Once Preliminary Fighter Now Portrait Painter

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 February 1945 · page 11

From preliminary fighter to portrait painter that is the record of 45-years-old Joseph William Dainer, of Petersham. Twenty years ago Dainer was fighting six-round…

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Tram Brings Out Wounded

The Sun · Saturday 24 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--It is now a penny tramride to perhaps the strangest battle of the war, now being fought in the mountains…

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Dispute Delays Bridge-building

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 February 1945 · page 5

GOSFORD, Sat.--As a result of a riggers' dispute over starting-time, the 400ft. span of the new Hawkesbury River railway bridge was not moved…

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Poor Suzuki-san finds the going very tough Im Tokio, geisha girls drive trams, and . . . They buy it on the yamitorihiki

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 February 1945 · page 7

IN Tokio they don't black-market, they yamitorihiki. Yamitorihiki-ing…

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1d tram ride to battlefront

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 February 1945 · page 32

LONDON, Sat.--It is now a penny tram ride to one of the strangest battles of the war, says a Daily Express…

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Bridge Men Resume

The Sun · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

GOSFORD Monday.--The 50 riggers, who ceased work on the Hawkesbury traffic bridge at 4 pm on Friday over an overtime…

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Train Kills Girl

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 4

BULLI, Sunday.—Ruth Helen Deep, 13, of Kiandra Avenue, Woonona, died in the Bulli Hospital on Saturday night, after having been struck by a…

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Bridge Workers Report for Duty

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

GOSFORD, Monday.--All workmen reported for duty on the Hawkesbury River railway bridge construction job this morning…

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Bridge Workers Report for Duty

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

GOSFORD, Monday.--All workmen reported for duty on the Hawkesbury River railway bridge construction job this morning…

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Fliers Train For Postwar Expansion

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 2

QANTAS Empire Airways plans to train 80 traffic officers this year to cope with the expansion of postwar aviation…

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Slept After Fall From Fast Train

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--A Canadian soldier, Gunner Robert Nels Engstron (20), who stepped from the Scotch Express while it was…

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Slept After Fall From Fast Train

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

LONDON. Monday.--A Canadian soldier. Gunner Robert Nels Engstron (20), who stepped from the Scotch Express while it was…

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Ambulance Turns Over on Road On Way To Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 4

BULLI, Sunday.—The Bulli Ambulance waggon overturned on the wet road last night on its way tO treat a clergyman who…

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State Railways' Part in Defence

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 7

New South Wales Railways had done everything asked of them for defence purposes, said the Railway Commissioner (Mr…

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Motor Driver Sent to Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 2

At Quarter Sessions today Judge Stacy sentenced Harold Sterling (47), Beresford Rd., Rose Bay, to nine months' gaol for wanton…

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