Sprinter Seized on Road
MELBOURNE, Saturday.— The well-known sprinter Tamaroa was seized forcibly and taken…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
6,149 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 250
Car Burnt In Triple Collision Six Hurt in Road Crash
Six persons were injured—three critically—when a sedan car, after colliding with a lorry, crashed into a utility truck and caught fire on the Great Western Highway, Pendle Hill, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →If A Well-Dressed Man Offers To Sell You The Harbour Bridge, Snap It Up, Because It's Doing Good Business
IN spite of a war-created deficit of £410.000 and loan charges totalling £1,000 a day, Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scientists are planning silent road drills, hushed trains, reticent telephones. They may even subdue— Those NOISY neighbours
ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR NICHOL HAVE you noticed the noise lately—the vibrations, the squeals, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berk Chief Has Wide Experience Men Of The Motor World
ONE of the best known names in the Sydney motoring world is that of Mr. W. R. Hauslaib,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Big Display By General Motors
FIRST complete automobile and product show in Detroit, U.S., since before the war will be staged at Convention…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Man Killed in Fall From Motor Truck
Falling from the rear of a truck at Rylstone last night, Herbert William Cunningham (50), of Rylstone, was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →TRUTH about MOTORING New Vauxhalls Are Different
THE 1949 Vauxhalls hare just made their appearance in new and improved form and with a range which should suit the majority of car users. There are now two distinct types—the 18 h.p. and the 12 h.p. The chassis, apart from the engines, are similar…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tram and Bus Experts Advisers To State Government
Mr. G. F. Sinclair, a London Transport expert, arrived in Sydney yesterday. He will advise the State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ninth French railway smash in 7 months PARIS
TWENTY-SIX people were killed and 118 injured when the Metz-Dijon Express and a locomotive collided last night near the German border. It was France's ninth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder On The North Shore On the list of unsolved murder mysteries on New South Wales police files is the brutal killing in a North Shore train of Francis Cecil Kemmins, popular manager of the Hornsby branch of the Government Savings Bank. The mystery is recalled in this article by James Taylor
ON the night of January 7, 1922. Kemmins was hit on the head and robbed on a North Shore train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Domestic row held up train
An electric train was held up at Warwick Farm station last Thursday while a man and his wife were arguing on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boat and Train in Collision!
DRAYTON HALL (S. Car.).-- A passenger train and a boat actually collided near here…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Three Dead, 18 Injured in Road Smashes
Three people were killed in accidents during the weekend. Eighteen people were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big motor exhibition
General Motors' entire Transportation Unlimited Show, which attracted 300,000 people to New York's…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sun Motor News Car Men's Busy Week Releases of new models
Sydney motor men have had their busiest week for a long time. Not because they had more…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →City Buildings Checked by Railways
Buildings in the vicinity of the proposed Eastern Suburbs underground railway station in Martin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Truck Crash
This tram came to rest at dangerous angle following a collision with a towing truck in Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram, Truck Crash
This tram came to rest at a dangerous angle following a collision with a towing truck in Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram, Truck Crash
This tram came to rest at a dangerous angle following a collision with a towing truck in Pacific…
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