Carrying the load: transport in NSW during World War II
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Carrying the load: transport in NSW during WWII
Jenny Sloggett
State Records NSW Open Day
30 August 2013
NRS 20017: War files [Department of Railways] Item ‘Railways at War’
A crowded platform at Central Railway Station, Sydney, 16 March 1944NRS 17420 State Rail Authority Photographic Reference Print Collection
State Records NSW Digital ID 17420_a014_a014000279
Equipment for the Northern Territory leaving DMR’s Rose Hill Depot by train, 1942
NRS 20012 Photograph albums relating to Northern Territory road works [Department of Main Roads] State Records NSW Digital ID 20012_a036_06_17261000306
NRS 20224 Photographs of metropolitan, country roads ferries etc.,and miscellaneous operations, New South Wales, SRNSW Digital ID 20224_a038_001209
15 February 1930.
Year Number vehicles
Accidents Killed Injured
1937-1938 294100 12575 612 8615
1938-1939 316558 11906 552 8388
1939-1940 327834 11200 547 8398
1940-1941 313962 10458 471 7471
1941-1942 288789 7775 480 5548
1942-1943 268673 7085 428 5096
2011 4893700 42953 364 26366
Road accidents 1937/38 to 1942/43
NRS 10623 Correspondence Files [Ministry of Transport]File 42/--/2442 [10/2545]
NRS 19987 Action: Official Journal of National Emergency Services
Lane Cove National Park, October 1943, showing white highlights on cars State Records NSW Digital ID 12932_a012_a012X2442000022
NRS 10623 Correspondence Files [Ministry of Transport]File 44/31/345 [10/2558] Instruction re Producer Gas vehicles
NRS 10623 File 39/39B/1078 [10/2503] Dr Featherstone’s ambulance, 1939