More Cars and Lorries on Road
On January 31 last there were 189,130 registered motor cars and 89,876 registered lorries and vans in New South Wales…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
6,185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250
U.s. Vice-consul in Moscow Road Fracas
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.--The State Department is awaiting a complete report on the recent Moscow incident in which the U.S. Vice-Consul (Mr. William Wallace) was beaten up by a group of Russians…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Tramgirls Not Keeping Servicemen From Jobs
Every returned man who previously worked on he trams or buses had received his job back…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blaze On Motor Ship
Fire gutted the bridge of the 3020 tons Adelaide Steamship Company's motorship, Momba, berthed at Waterview Wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fight To Keep Tram, Bus Jobs
Angry bus conductresses held a meeting in the vestibule of the Trades Hall today when a special…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Union Views Differ Over Women
At a meeting of tram members of the Tram and Bus Employees' Union last night, a motion protesting against the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Danger on Roads
Sir,—We have had a great deal of publicity on road safety, sponsored, I believe, by a Road' Safety Council reputedly representative of all authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Glass on Roads
The National Roads and Motorists Association of N.S.W. in a letter to Holrovd Council. stated that it was still very concerned at the large number of reports…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship's Bridge Ablaze
Damage estimated at hundreds of pounds was caused by fire which gutted the bridge and bridge fittings of the motor ship…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blocked Road
The roadway was blocked at Parramatta today when an Army recreation hut, which had done excellent service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Races
The Blacktown Amateur Cycle Club has decided to conduct a number of road races. The first race will be held on Saturday, March 23…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Road Between Trieste and Central Europe Planned
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mascot Aerodrome to Be Extensively Developed. Five Million to be Spent
Federal Cabinet last week approved of the first stage of Dr. K. N. E. Bradfield's plan to make Kingsford Smith Aerodrome, Mascot, one of Australia’s leading airports…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Aeroplane Disaster National Airways' Plane Crashes at Hobart
The worst aeroplane disaster in the history of Australia took place on Sunday night, when a DC3 plane,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Broken Glass on Roads "Children Worst Offenders"
"The worst offenders seem to be school-children," said Alderman Guilfoyle at Lidcombe Council last week when a circular letter was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Scaling
Sir,—The tram sections where I have seen people getting on and off repeatedly without paying their fares are. King Street line, between down-town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Women Protest Stopwork Plan To-day
Bus and tram traffic may be dislocated in Sydney to-day because a number of tram and bus conductresses have decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bus, Tram Girls Storm Into Parliament House
Protesting against dismissals, more than 40 bus and tram conductresses today stormed Parliament House, demanded to see the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) and ate their lunch in the vestibule while waiting for him…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Knocked Off Tram Footboard
Joseph Richard Burke, 28, of Beach- street, Coogee, a tram conductor, was brushed from the footboard of a tram today by a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Expectant Mother Living In Motor Car
An Australian naval petty officer and his pregnant wife have lived in their car in Sydney streets for the past month because they cannot find…
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