Editorial The opinions expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the Master Builders' Association, unless otherwise stated.} Safer Roads
Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 1
Road safety lectures and exhortations have been with us for years and yet the past holiday season has been marred by a distressing number of fatal accidents. More intensified police activity is the only solution the authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How Bridges Have Increased Man's Mobility Presented at the Centennial of Engineering Structures and Construction CONVOCATION.(Reprinted from the American Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, Inc.—Bi-Monthly, August, 1952.)
Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 9
The past century has seen the transformation of America-from a young pioneer settlement to a great and flourishing nation, taking its place…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Western Railway Project Contracts Resumed
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 1
The Premier,,Mr. J. J. Cahill, last night said the Railways Department would abide by its contract with the Metropolitan Vickers Company for the supply of electric…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Budapest Underground Railway First Station Completed
Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 5
The tunnels, platforms, escalator shafts and ground-level hall of the “People's Stadium” station of the new Budapest underground railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boston Elevated Railways Unification of System Claimed to Be Best
Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 4
The City of Boston, Massachusetts, one of a hundred American cities using various forms of mass transportation methods to handle its teeming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SUN Readers Say Stationary trams
The Sun · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 17
Our traffic police are doing a great job, particularly with regard to drinking drivers and speedhogs…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 9
BRISBANE, Wed.--Twelve trucks of a goods train today plunged into a creek…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Trucks disrupt train services
The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 1
Train services between Bankstown and Sefton were interrupted for two hours today after two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last Train Too Early
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 31
Kembla Grange race club officials were criticised by punters today at Hawkesbury over the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Man sees train kill daughters
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 9
MELBOURNE, Wed.--A man saw his two daughters killed today when an express hit a lorry at a level crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The tax road to ruin
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 8
LAST year Australians paid six times as much in taxation as they did in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Taxi-driver killed in road smash
The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2
A taxi-driver was fatally injured when his cab was crushed between two trams at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Easy Road For Lew Hoad
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 31
MELBOURNE, Thurs. --Shock Davis Cup selection, Lewis Hoad, has a tough draw in the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →No Easy Road For Lew Hood
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 31
MELBOURNE, Thurs. --Shock Davis Cup selection, Lewis Hoad, has a tough draw in the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Flooding may cut railway
The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 11
ADELAIDE, Thursday. --The North -South railway line was almost certain to be cut by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →One Killed, One Injured in Taxi-tram Collision Man Charged After Fatal Mascot Smash
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 3
George Wilson Reynolds (27), tramdriver, Davidson Crescent, Maroubra, appeared at Redfern Court today on a charge of manslaughter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quay Railway Plan "Tragedy," Says Prof
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2
The Circular Quay overhead railway was a tragedy, Professor Gordon Stephenson said today. The railway would ruin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreckage of Death Taxi CarTram Smash: One Killed, 1 Injured
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 1
A man was killed, and another injured, in a taxi-tram collision at the intersection of Lords and Botany roads, Mascot, this morning. The dead man was the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quay Railway Plan "Tragedy." Says Prof
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2
The Circular Quay overhead railway was a tragedy, Professor Gordon Stephenson said today. The railway would ruin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreckage of Death Taxi One Killed, One Hurt: Taxi and Tram Smash
Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 3
A man was killed, and another injured, in a taxi-tram collisioh at the intersection of Lords And Botany Rds., Mascot, this morning…
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