Shoppers' Trams
NOW that the 40-hour week is general, housewives and shoppers should be encouraged to be home by 3.30 so that…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
5,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 250
Shoppers' Trams
NOW that the 40-hour week is general, housewives and shoppers should be encouraged to be home by 3.30 so that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tram Strike Counter Wins Praise
MELBOURNE, Friday.— Telegrams congratulating the Victorian Government on its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Tram Strike Ends in Union Split Angry Exchanges At Mass Meeting
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Dissension has arisen in the Tramway Employees' Association as a direct result of the Melbourne tram strike, which ended to-day. Some union quarters say that dissatisfaction with the handling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Public to pay for dispute Melbourne Trams, Buses Run Again
MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Melbourne's transport strike ended soon after dawn today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Trams Ruined By Prosperity Honesty Box Failure
Sydney has the distinction of having a tramway system which suffers from too much prosperity. Overcrowded, outmoded and broken-down, Sydney's trams…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →My Sydney Survey I hear comment on the Quay . . . see a bus . . . watch children at play . . . and a tram at rest
"Circular Quay on a Saturday afternoon is a disgrace," writes an indignant lady who wants her name suppressed. "I have never been so shocked and disgusted as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Behind the Tram Strike Where Do We Go From Here?
Notwithstanding that judgment was given as long ago as last December, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board was unprepared at the time of strike (Jan. 3), with staff readjustments, for the 40-hour week. CONCILIATION procedure…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hope On Railway Tie-up Leaders to Ask Men to Resume
The State executive of the Electrical Trades Union will recommend at a meeting on Monday that all striking railway electricians, except four,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram Men Bitter As Strike Ends
MELBOURNE, Friday.--A bitter and recriminatory scene involving about 100 Communist and anti-Communist union leaders today marked the end of Melbourne's 13-day tram strike. Melbourne's tram, train…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Transport Normal Again Trams, Trains, Buses Resume Schedules Cleavage in Union Widens
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Trams, buses, and trains resumed normal schedules this morning after the fortnight's strike and threats of a general…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Petrol Waste on Bridge
Tests had shown that a motorist using the Harbor Bridge twice daily, five days a week, wasted 52 gallons of petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arabs Hold Up Train
JERUSALEM, Saturday. — British tanks and armored cars dispersed 50 armed Arabs who held up a train near Jerusalem…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Man Run Down By Own Train
TAREE, Saturday. — Lionel Robinson, driver of the Kempsey day mail train, fell from his engine near Taree today and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Rides in Trams Again
MELBOURNE, Saturday.— Thousands of tired citizens today travelled on trams and tramway buses for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hopes of railway settlement
STRIKING railway electricians at a mass meeting tomorrow will be advised by their union…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Twins In Crashed Aeroplane
KANDOS, Sunday.--Twin brothers flying in a Tiger Moth plane crashed near…
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NEW YORK, Monday. -- Three persons are believed to have been burned to death when two freight trains crashed in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Double-decker Bus And Tram Collide
Two passengers were injured and several suffered shock when a tram and a double-decker bus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney's rail, tram, bus jam reaches peak Review No. 1
Because many offices, shops and factories were closed down, more seats, were available on trains, trams and buses during the holiday period; but the traffic rush is on once more…
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