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Railways, roads & transport, 1949

6,149 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250

U.s. Motorists Had Record Petrol Bill

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 11

WASHINGTON.--U.S. motorists used a record total of 30,700,000,000 gallons of petrol in 1948. The average motorist's…

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U.s. Motorists Had Record Petrol Bill

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON.--U.S. motorists used a record total of 30,700,000,000 gallons of petrol in 1948. The average motorist's…

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Penpoints From the People Tram Steps

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 8

IF we cannot have new trams, we could surely have an extra step, or a lower step, on all old tram cars. It is extremely…

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Penpoints From the People Tram Steps

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 8

IF we cannot have hew trams, we could surely have an extra step, or a lower step, on all old tram cars. It is extremely…

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U.s. Motorists Had Record Petrol Bill

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 7

WASHINGTON.--U.S. motorists used a record total, of 30,700,000,000 gallons of petrol in 1948. The average motorist's…

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Penpoints From the People Tram Steps

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 8

IF we cannot have new trams, we could surely have an extra step, or a lower step, on all old tram ears. It. is extremely…

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Penpoints From the People Tram Steps

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 8

IF we cannot have new trains, we could surely have an extra step, on a lower step, on all old tram, cars. It is extremely…

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U.s. Motorists Had Record Petrol Bill

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 12

WASHINGTON.--U.S. motorists used a record total of 30,700,000.000 gallons of petrol in 1948. The average motorist's…

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Penpoints From the People Tram Steps

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 8

IF we cannot have new trams, we could surely have an extra step, or a lower step, on all old tram cars. It is extremely…

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Penpoints From the People Tram Steps

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 8

IF we cannot have new-trams, we could surely have an extra step, on a lower step, on all old train cars. It is extremely…

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Weekend ban by train men

The Sun · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 1

No trains will run on many NSW lines during weekends unless the Department withdraws instructions curtailing weekend track inspections…

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Speeder murders road cop

The Sun · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. -- A traffic inspector was shot dead last night by a motor-cyclist…

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Crowd at Station Rush For Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 1

Nearly 70,000 holidaymakers passed through the barriers at Central Railway Station last night…

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£17,000 Diamond Robbery in Taxi Bandits Dump Man on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Two men forced their way into a taxi yesterday, bludgeoned the passenger with iron bars and robbed him of diamonds worth…

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£17,000 Diamond Robbery in Taxi Bandits Dump Man on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Two men forced their way into a taxi yesterday, bludgeoned the passenger with iron bars and robbed him of diamonds worth…

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£17,000 Diamond Robbery in Tax Bandits Dump Man on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Two men forced their way into a taxi yesterday, bludgeoned the passenger with iron bars and robbed him of diamonds worth…

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£17,000 Diamond Robbery in Taxi Bandits Dump Man on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Two men forced their way into a taxi yesterday, bludgeoned the passenger with iron bars and robbed him of diamonds worth…

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£17,000 Diamond Robbery in Taxi Bandits Dump Man on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Two men forced their way into a taxi yesterday, bludgeoned the passenger with iron bars and robbed him of diamonds worth…

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Sun Motor News Control now on sports cars to aid disabled

The Sun · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 16

The Tait Control -- an aid to disabled motor drivers -- has been installed in a sports car for the first time in Australia. Mr. Bruce Thwaite, of Concord Repatriation Hospital,…

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He was safer in his motor car

The Sun · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 17

A North Dakota motorist escaped Unscathed when his car shot off the road, banged into three posts and crashed…

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