Bill Green’s 41 years in train trade
I’VE been working on the railroad is a familiar tune to Bill Green of Merrylands. It is familiar because Bill has worked…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1978
108 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 6
Tienduizenden valse kaartjes voor tram en bus verspreid
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council plans road works
WORK will soon be carried oat on several Holroyd roads. The work has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Understanding the struggle in Vanuaaku New Hebrides on the Road to Independence. Edited by Chris Plant. $2.95 from Seli Hoo, 232 Castlereagh St, Sydney. Available soon. Land and Politics in the New Hebrides, by Barak Sope. $2 from Seli Hoo or progressive bookshops
The New Hebrides - Vanuaaku - have become a matter of concern not. only for Australians supporting the struggle for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jim motors in third
WENTWORTHVILLE rally driver, Jim Zerefos, has won third place in the Group Seven Motor Sport Association's rally series. Zerefos won third position In the association's 1[?]77…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The profitable road to recovery
The government says investment in Australia is the road to economic recovery-but that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improvements to Roads Will Cost News in Brief
MORE than $220,000 will be spent on improvements to roads in Smithfield and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four lane bridge is to be built
I APOLOGISE to those residents who will be inconvenienced during the reconstruction of the railway bridge at Westmead. It will be remembered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge May Be Costly Council bill may total $100,000
HOLROYD Council will pay 20 per cent of the construction cost of a new rail overpass in Hawkesbury Rd, Westmead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Diamond Motors — success story
Diamond Motors, the Datsun dealer, has a display and administration area of more than 22,000 square feet at Maroubra. Three well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Motoring Sports Appeal in Lancia Hpe
Continuing its tradition of making performance cars for the enthusiast, Lancia has now produced the HPE (High Performance, Estate) version of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bridge plan opposed
BRISBANE: Plans to build a bridge to link Stradbroke Island with the mainland are being opposed by some locals. They claim the bridge is being built to open the island up for land developers…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fraser to Train Unionists
SYDNEY: Trade union education will come under the control of the Fraser…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →France Now Renault goes for ‘grand slam’ to climax 80 years of motor sport
Renault has confounded many of Europe’s motor racing oracles by bouncing back stronger than ever in almost every category of racing and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Tramways: Poor Conditions Poor Service
Tramway workers in Victoria take home as little as $110 a week for 40 hours work. Drivers can work for 4[?] hours without a break and a third of their shifts are broken…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BROOMN Road Traffic Noise
Associate Professor Anita Lawrence of the School of Architecture, and Mrs Marion Burgess, a senior tutor in the School, have been awarded a grant by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Art Show to Tour by Train
HOLROYD art-lovers will not have to travel to Sydney in the future to enjoy the State’s art treasures. State Premier, Mr Wran…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Going down the road
DOWN THE ROAD: Unemployment and the Fight for the Right to Work, by Sarah Cox and Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Woman Will Train As Astronaut
NEW YORK: One of the six women chosen for astronaut training by the National Administration…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hakoah’s “Road Trip” Brings Three Points and P.r. Fiasco
Three points, but no financial bonanza — this is the balance of Hakoah’s long weekend in Melbourne and there is a possibility of better things to come. From the football point of view, the matches against Footscray JUST and Fitzroy Alexander ensured that the Blues stay near the top of the national league, which they won in its inaugural season in 1977. As for the experiment of…
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