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Railways, roads & transport, 1953

6,017 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Runaway Train Crashes At Station: 98 Injured

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Fri. (I.N.S.),-- A runaway passenger train smashed into the Union Station concourse yesterday, injuring 98 persons, 11 of them badly. More than one million…

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Runaway Train: 98 HURT Driver Averts Big Death Toll

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Fri. (I.N.S.)-- A runaway passenger train smashed into the Union Station concourse yesterday, injuring 98 persons, 11 of them…

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Runaway Train: 98 HURT Driver Averts Big Death Toll

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Fri. (I.N.S.) -- A runaway passenger train smashed into the Union Station concourse yesterday, injuring 98 persons, 11 of them…

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Runaway Train: 98 HURT Driver Averts Big Death Toll

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Fri. (I.N.S.) -- A runaway passenger train smashed info the Union Station concourse yesterday, injuring 98 persons, 11 of them…

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Motor Racing Review

The Land · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 24

Australian Motor Racing Year Book No. 3 is the latest of this well-known series from the publishers…

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Motor Racing Year Book

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 11

AUSTRALIAN Motor Racing Year Book No. 3 is the latest of this now well known series from the publishers of The…

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Victoria's Motor Rules Amended

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 11

EXTENSIVE revision of Victoria's motor vehicle regulations have brought interesting changes in driving rules and laws relating to equipment, states the N.R.M.A…

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Police Appeal to Motorist

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

Police last night asked a motorist who picked up a purse containing £53 at Allawah railway station…

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Cycle hits motor lorry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 10

Two youths on a motor cycle crashed into the back of a lorry in Fitzgerald Avenue, Maroubra,…

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1s 6d Door Bells Paved Way for Greatest Motor in World

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 13

ON All Fools' Day, 1904, a shining new car left an engineering shop in Cooke St., Manchester, on its first test-run. There was Something unusual about the car. Instead of the normal noise of an early 20th century horseless carriage" -- like…

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Tram Conductor Saw Slain Girl

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

Detectives on the Waverton murder case today said the conductor off tram No. 1844 on Christmas Eve, Richard Dare, Stokes St., Lane Cove, now had a fairly clear recollection…

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Tram Conductor Saw Slain Girl

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

Defectives on the Waverton murder case today said the conductor of tram No. 1844 on Christmas Eve, Richard Dare, Stokes St., Lane Cove, now had a fairly clear recollection…

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1s 6d Door Bells Paved Way for Greatest Motor in World

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 13

ON Ail Fools Day, 1904, a shining new ear left an engineering shop in Cooke St., Manchester, on its first test-run. There was something unusual about the car. Instead of the normal noise of an early 20th century "horseless carriage"-- like…

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Tram Conductor Saw Slain Girl

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

Defectives on the Waverton murder case today said the conductor of tram No. 1844 on Christmas Eve, Richard Dare, Stokes St., Lane Cove, now had a fairly clear recollection…

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Is 6d Door Bells Paved Way for Greatest Motor in World

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 13

ON All Fools Day, 1904, a shining new car left an engineering shop in Gooke St, Manchester, on its first test-run. There was something unusual about the car. Instead of the normal noise of an eaely 20th century "horseless carriage" -- like…

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1s 6d Door Bells Raved Way for Greatest Motor in World

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 13

ON All Fools' Day, 1904, a shining new car left an engineering shop in Cooke St., Manchester, on its first test-run. There was something unusual about the car. Instead of the normal noise of an early 20th century "horseless carriage"--like…

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1s 6d Door Bells Paved Way for Greatest Motor in World

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 13

ON All Fools' Day, 1904, a shining new car left an engineering shop in Cooke St., Manchester, on its first test - run. There was something unusual about the car. Instead of the normal noise of an early 20th century "horseless carriage" -- like…

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Tram Conductor Saw Slain Girl

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

Detectives on the Waverton murder case today said the conductor of tram No. 1844 on Christmas Eve, Richard Dare, Stokes St., Lane Cove, now had a fairly clear recollection…

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1s 6d Door Bells Paved Way for Greatest Motor in World

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 13

ON All Fools Day, 1904, a shining new car left an engineering shop in Cooke St., Manchester, on its first test-run. There was something unusual about the car. Instead of the normal noise of an early 20th century "horseless carriage"--like…

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2 Hurt in Car, Tram Collision

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 5

Two men were slightly injured in a collision between a car and a tram in Frenchman's Rd.,…

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