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Railways, roads & transport, 1948

5,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Motor -Cycling Ace Speedsters for Third Test

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 8

Vic Duggan and Max Grosskreutz have been included in the Australian team lib compete in the third…

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Motor Bike That Folds

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 5

THIS FOLDING motor cycle, available on the British market, has a maximum speed of 30…

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Stoppage Of Trams In Melb

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --After midnight tonight there will be no trams or tramway buses running in…

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Motor Bike That Folds

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 5

THIS FOLDING motor cycle, available on the British market, has a maximum speed of 30…

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Interstate carriers say new tax will drive trucks from roads

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1948 · page 6

The State Government's tax of 3d a ton-mile on road transport vehicles would force 75 per cent. of interstate operators off the road, Mr. R. D. Bright said yesterday. Mr. Bright is a…

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Melb. Without Tram, Bus Services Today Decision By Mass Meeting Continuance of Strike Likely

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—All trams will stop at midnight tonight as the result of a decision by a mass meeting of off-duty tram-way employees today…

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This tram story will shake you!

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1948 · page 4

THERE are two groups of people in Sydney who get more joy than misery out of the city's…

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Pages for Women Young country campers saw city sights from trams

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1948 · page 26

COUNTRY children who arrived early yesterday morning from all parts of the Stale to attend a Red Cross camp at Bathurst filled in waiting-time in Sydney travelling backwards and wards in a Railway-Quay tram…

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Van hurdled to footpath by tram, injures four people

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1948 · page 3

Four people were knocked down and injured last night when a tram struck a panel-van at the corner of King and Pitt Streets and hurled it on to the crowded footpath…

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Veteran Golfer, Motorist Dies

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1948 · page 23

Mr. J. A. Wilson, 82, oldest member of the Senior Golfers' Society of Sydney, died at his home, St. Michael's Flats…

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Ten Children Killed When Train Hits Sled

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

ARCHIBOLD (Ohio), Monday.--A New York Central passenger train knifed through a bobsled party yesterday, killing 10 children from three families and scattering parts of the tractor-drawn sleigh for a mile down the tracks…

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Train kills 10 kiddies New York

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

The Chicago-bound New York Central passenger train knifed through a bobsled jammed with children,…

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Ten Children Killed When Train Hits Sled

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

ARCHIBOLD (Ohio), Monday.--A New York Central passenger train knifed through a bobsled party yesterday, killing 10 children from three families and scattering parts of the tractor-drawn sleigh for a mile down the tracks…

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Ten Children Killed When Train Hits Sled

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

ARCHIBOLD (Ohio), Monday.--A New York Central passenger train knifed through a bobsled party yesterday, killing 10 children from three families and scattering parts of the tractor-drawn sleigh for a mile down the tracks…

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Ten Children Killed When Train Hits Sled

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

ARCHIBOLD (Ohio), Monday.--A New York Central passenger train knifed through a bobsled party yesterday, killing 10 children from three families and scattering parts of the tractor-drawn sleigh for a mile down the tracks…

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Ten Children Killed When Train Hits Sled

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

ARCHIBOLD (Ohio), Monday.--A New York Central passenger train knifed through a bobsled party yesterday, killing 10 children from three families and scattering parts of the tractor-drawn sleigh for a mile down the tracks…

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No Trams, Buses Melbourne Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Melbourne's trams and tramway buses, which normally carry a million…

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More New Motor Cars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

New motor cars registered in Australia in 1947 totalled 32,362 —nearly three times the number in 1946…

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Tram man on drunk charge

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 2

Norman Joseph Haven, 27, tram-driver, was charged at Balmain Police Court today, with having been…

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Tramless day for Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Melbourne had to go to work today without trams or tramway…

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