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Railways, roads & transport, 1955

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Railway Can't Cope With Big Demand For Super

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 May 1955 · page 4

ARMIDALE.— The astonishing increase in the demand for superphosphate in New England as the practice of improved pastures has caught on has brought with it a…

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MOTORING 16 p.c. More Power In New Hillman Minx

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 May 1955 · page 37

A new version of the Hillman Minx which was displayed for the first time in Sydney at the recent Royal Easter Show" has 16 per cent, more power than its predecessor…

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Opnieuw motor rijder dood gereden

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 13 May 1955 · page 2

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Radioactive Roads

The World's News · Saturday 14 May 1955 · page 20

MANY roads in Great Britain have been found to be metallised by a Uranium-bearing slag which is highly radioactive…

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Balmoral trams

Tribune · Wednesday 18 May 1955 · page 12

FOLLOWING representations by the North Sydney Mosman Communist Party section committee, Transport Minister Wetherell has…

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Top Athletes for Warsaw Motor-cycle champ sends greetings

Tribune · Wednesday 18 May 1955 · page 10

Top-line Australian athletes Shirley Strickland, Pat Gallagher and Chris Duke are going to the World Youth Festival for Peace in Warsaw in July. SHIRLEY STRICKLAND holds…

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Penrith Road Safety Council Drive for Members

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1955 · page 7

PENRITH Branch of the Road Safety Council decided at its monthly meeting held at the School of Arts to…

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Use of Council Chambers Road Safety and Spastic

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1955 · page 1

UNDAUNTED by a refusal just received, Penrith branch of the Road Safety Council, on Friday evening,…

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Heavy Vehicles on the Road (From N.S.W. Police Traffic Branch)

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1955 · page 4

Large heavy vehicles have become a necessary part of our way of life and as a result of accidents in which they have…

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MOTORING Luxury Is The Keynote Of Latest Austin

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 May 1955 · page 37

The Austin A90 Six Westminster is another addition to the Austin range which was exhibited for the first time in New South Wales at the Royal Easter Show. This four-door saloon…

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Weer motor ongeluk met dodelijke afloop

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 20 May 1955 · page 2

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Train Centenary

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 25 May 1955 · page 1

With a view to co-operating with the Railway Department in celebrating the centenary of…

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Motors - Services Help a Little Girl Fight for Health

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 25 May 1955 · page 15

Cars care needed to take a seven-year-old girl, suffering from the terrible effects of encephalitis, daily from Granville for treatment…

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Boy Running Across Road, Injured

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 May 1955 · page 4

On Monday, May 23, Robert Millingen, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Milligan, of Gidley Street. St. Marys, suffered a…

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Train Driver's Good Record Ex-resident of St. Marys

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 May 1955 · page 1

A native of St. Marys, Mr. Jim McCarren, of Taree, received the Imperial Service Medal from the State Governor, Lient.-General…

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MOTORING New Triumph Has A Glass Hood

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 27 May 1955 · page 37

A sports car with an unbreakable, detachable hard top made of resin bonded glass fibre has recently been introduced to Australia. It is the Triumph, a…

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Motorrijders lopen grootste gevaar Zij veroorzaken minder ongelukken

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 27 May 1955 · page 6

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Road Safety Points

Nepean Times · Thursday 2 June 1955 · page 5

Where any vehicle breaks down or is stopped for some reason or other, it is the driver's responsibility to see that the…

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Inquest on Road Fatality Death of Girl Cyclist Who Drove Utility?

Nepean Times · Thursday 2 June 1955 · page 1

Much evidence Was heard by the district coroner, Mr. N. C. Gardner, in an inquest held at the Penrith Court House on Tuesday into the death of a 14-year-old school girl, who died from injuries received in a…

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Railway Dept. Won't Stop "Chips" at St. Marys

Nepean Times · Thursday 2 June 1955 · page 1

Penrith Council has received a negative reply from the Railway Department to a proposal that the 5.18 p.m. train from Sydney…

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