Tram Crashes Into Another
Rear of a corridor tram was badly smashed when a foot hoard tram crashed into it from behind in a cutting between…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
6,390 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250
Road Tax Cut Sought
CANBERRA, Friday.—A recommendation that the tax on petrol be reduced from 10[?]d to 6d a gallon was among those made to the…
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New vehicles registered during December totalled 2232 -highest number since the same month in 1939…
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LAST week Mr. Walter Wallace, of Parramatta, received a letter from Colonel A. Suarez, in the Philippines. Col Suarez commanded the 125th Guerrilla Regiment in those islands during the Pacific war…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Council's [?]3,000,000 Road Plan Lagging
Sydney City Council's postwar road construction programme, which will cost more than [?]3,000,000 and take 12 years to complete, is six months behind schedule, acting City Engineer (Mr. E. G. Stimson) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Die In Road Crashes, Car Cuts Off Man's Leg
Two men and a woman were killed in road accidents last night, and several persons were injured. A young man assisting a fellow motorist with a blow-out early today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Devotional Readings Sunday, January 26 Verse— The House by the Side of the Road
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Special Trains Are Doing Unusual Jobs Puffing round British railway tracks just now are several trains with very special jobs, One, on the L.M.S., will cover 4000 miles of track this summer, killing weeds which weald otherwise smother sleepers, points and the track itself. From Our London Office
CARRYING 7000 gallons of weedkiller on each stage of its trip, this "Special" sprays an average for 70 miles a day. Experts estimate that…
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A COMPLETE overhaul of the legislation under which Australia's network of roads and highways is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods On East-West Railway
WORKMEN repairing the Adelaide-Perth railway line near Cook, on the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, about 60 miles from the Western Australian border. After a cloudburst on Wednesday, when 5 inches of rain fell in two hours, a lake a mile wide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Boats Sylph Scores in Broken Bay Race
SYLPH, owned by Mr. W. D. Lawson, and Maeron (Mr. Cyril Hoffman) were the only competitors today for the Mirima Shield sailed over…
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SYLPH, owned by Mr. W. D. Lawson, and Maeron (Mr. Cyril Hoffman) were the only competitors today for the Mirima Shield sailed over…
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SYLPH, owned by Mr. W. D. Lawson, and Maeron (Mr. Cyril Hoffman) were the only competitors today for the Mirima Shield sailed over…
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SYLPH, owned by Mr. W. D. Lawson, and Maeron (Mr. Cyril Hoffman) were the only competitors today for the Mirima Shield sailed over…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Boats Sylph Scores in Broken Bay Race
SYLPH, owned by Mr. W. D. Lawson, and Maeron (Mr. Cyril Hoffman) were the only competitors today for the Mirima Shield sailed over…
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A special train will, in future, run from Central to all Newcastle race meetings. This has been arranged by secretary Mr. Jack Hibberd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Arab laughed at the oil train
At an extravagant banquet in New York's exclusive Waldorf-Astoria a bearded Arab in a flowing white robe laughed with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hammond (188) on the long road back to form
ENGLISH captain Walter Hammond batted against South Australia at Adelaide yesterday though he realised he had no easy way back to success. AFTER his less than brilliant form in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boy Injured by Motor Cycle
William Settle, aged three, was badly injured When he was struck by a motor-cycle outside his home in Ashburner-street, Manly,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Aeroplane Hits Houses
THIS DAKOTA crashed into houses a few seconds after taking off from Northolt airport (England). Wreckage was…
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