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Railways, roads & transport, 1948

5,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250

Tram Service to Cammeray Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

THE Commissioner for Road A Transport (Mr. Neale) said today that, the tram service between Wynyard and Vale St.,…

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Tram Service to Cammeray Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

THE Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) said f today that the tram service between Wynyard and Vale St.,…

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Tram Service to Cammeray Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

THE Commissioner for Road p Transport (Mr. Neale) said today that the tram service between Wynyard and Vale St.,…

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Motor-boats

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 8

AT Kogarah Bay this after- noon the St. George Motor .Boat Club held a Ladies' Day to celebrate the opening of the…

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Tram Service to Cammeray Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

THE Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) said today that the tram service between Wynyard and Vale St.,…

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Tram Service to Cammeray Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

THE Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) said today that the tram service between Wynyard and Vale St.,…

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Tram Service to Cammeray Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

rpHE Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) said today that the tram service between Wynyard and Vale St…

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Tram Service to Cammeray Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

THE Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) said today that the tram service between Wynyard and Vale St.,…

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Woman loses teeth from aeroplane

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1948 · page 1

A WOMAN lost a set of false teeth from a plane yesterday. The teeth, a full upper set, fell from a plane flying over…

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Handcuffed escapee on way to gaol Escapee Twice Near Police, Hid in Train

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1948 · page 3

CROFTON EDWARD BARNES, 26, who broke out of Long Bay gaol on New Year's Day, had two narrow escapes from the police during his 10 days of hiding. Once he stood next to two policemen in the…

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Force Threatened in Tram Hold-up

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Latest development ire the tram strike situation is a threat by the Tramway Employees' Association to use force if necessary to prevent emergency transport from operating on tram…

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Threat to use force in Melb. tram strike

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Serious developments today in the Melbourne tramways strike were: Premier Hollway said that the State Government would probably authorise 400 privately owned buses to give the…

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Passenger Train for Factory Employees

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 4

KATOOMBA, Monday.-- The Department of Railways has provided an additional passenger train to run from…

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Hundreds Of Boots In Road

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--During the weekend hundreds of people picked up boots along the road between Boolaroo and…

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Jews Destroy Road Link with Syria

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 6

JERUSALEM, Monday. -- The "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the Jordan on the Palestine-Syrian frontier was blown up last night. It is in the area where…

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Trams or Buses?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 2

Sir,—The prosperous tram line running through Burwood has been scheduled for abolition, on the main grounds that the…

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Drastic move in Vic. tram strike

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Victorian Parliament, at an emergency meeting this week -- probably Thursday -- is likely to be asked to give the Government power to…

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5000 Vic. Tram Men Idle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 2

More than 5000 tramwaymen are idle in Melbourne. They have lost £32,000…

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Inquiry Into Boots on Road

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- Army provosts today investigated the finding of hundreds of pairs of military boots near…

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British Motor Cars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

Sir,—I read with intense indignation the ill-informed and mischievous assertion attributed to a Mr. R. Birch, to the effect that…

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