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Railways, roads & transport, 1946

6,185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250

Dedman's Warning on Motor Sales

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 11

CANBERRA, Thursday.--"It is impossible to prevent people who are prepared to assist others in breaking the law being fleeced." said the…

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Motorist Successful in Court Appeal

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 14

AT the Quarter Session Appeals Court yesterday Arnold Cedric McCarthy (43), salesman, of 96 Hastings Pde., Bondi, successfully appealed…

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Trams, Buses Can't Handle Crowds Scrambling for Seats Brings Many Protests

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY is in a bitter, and extremely vocal, mood about its seriously inadequate transport system, which is failing hopelessly to cope with peak-hour crowds. The public say they are entitled to some relief from the irritating inconveniences and hardships borne…

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Motorist Successful in Court Appeal

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 14

AT the Quarter Session Appeals Court yesterday Arnold Cedric McCarthy (43), salesman, of 96 Hastings Pde., Bondi, successfully appealed…

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Tram Crash in City Four Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 1

Two trams collided at the corner of Phillip and Bridge Streets last night, and four persons, including the driver and conductor of one…

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New Trams And Buses Soon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 4

New trams of the corridor type are to be built at the Randwick workshops to meet Sydney's transport needs…

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Man Injured in Tram Smash

The Biz · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 5

In l[?]ded in the injured when two trams collided at the corner of Phillip and Bridge Streets, City, on Wednesday night, was Albert Parker, [?]am a[?]ver, 52, ot…

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Train Passengers Suspect Escapees

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 4

PARIS, Thursday.--Passengers on a train bound for Germany became suspicious of a curious pair in one compartment…

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Train Cars Jump Points, Derailed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 7

The 1.35 p.m. Sydney-Newcastle train was delayed an hour yesterday when the two rear carriages jumped the points near Central Railway…

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Company To Train Discharged Men

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 16

INTERNATIONAL Harvester company of Australia pty. Ltd. recently purchased from the commonwealth Disposed from the Commonwealth Dispos[?] commission several…

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Hundred Thousand Communists Keep Chile On Forward Road

Tribune · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 5

Despite the growth of fascist movements in South America, fostered by British and American imperialism and by Falangist Spain, there is one country which has moved well along the democratic road. One of the four Chilean delegates to the San Francisco conference of the United Nations last year was a Communist, which demonstrated the influence and prestige of the…

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After Three Weeks on the Road I Came to the Royal Borough of Conargo

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 4

OF course, if you have never been to Conargo, it is hardly worth my while telling yon about it, but Conargo is a Royal Borough…

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Can Haul All Needed Super. Railways Confident Position Easier

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 1

"WE are satisfied we can haul all the superphosphate necessary for the new wheat crop sowings in time to…

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How Short Are Railway Trucks?

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 4

FURTHER light is thrown on the shortage of railway trucks by a report that the ships running daily between Sydney and Newcastle have their cargo space half empty…

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Motors and Motoring A.E.C. Monarchs Basic of New Truck Fleet

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 9

HAVING Lost all their pre-war A.E.C.s.—indeed, the whole of their fleet—in one of the London Dockland blit[?]s of 1941, it was…

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Travellers Maul Strikers, Stone Tramcars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

TOKYO, Feb. 28 (A.A.P.).— The Associated Press says that enraged passengers stoned tram cars, mauled station employees,…

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Obsolete Trams Condemned Union's Threat Of "Drastic Action"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

A threat that industrial trouble would develop unless new trams were built and present obsolete rolling stock discarded, was made by…

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Eastern Suburbs Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 5

The Minister for Transport. Mr. O'sullivan, said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that work on the Eastern Suburbs railway should be…

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Sacked Tram Girls to Petition Minister

Tribune · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

Tram conductresses who have been dismissed by the Transport Department will petition Transport Minister O’Sullivan to rescind the dismissals of women “who saved the industry from chaos during the…

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Under Tram

The Sun · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

IN GEORGE- STREET today William Perry, 40, of Leichhardt, was caught between two trams. A photographer…

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