Anonymous Letter Motorman Ordered to Pay £25. ADELAIDE
At the Summons Court, David Carpenter, a tram conductor, claimed £99 from Leslie Smith, motorman of the Tramways Trust, in respect of an anonymous letter…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
2,104 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 106
Road Samples Go Astray
''I think it is time the council took this matter up seriously. We are being made to appear fools,'' said Ald. J. A. Jay (Mayor), at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Derailed Passengers Badly Shaken. Newcastle
When the train from Maitland to Newcastle became derailed at Sandgate, near Newcastle, yesterday, many passengers had a narrow escape. The bogey wheels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strike of Road Men Job May Be "Black." Sydney
A serious position has developed as the result of the refusal of 280 men, formerly employed on main roads work at Wiseman's Ferry, to resume unless a dismissed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anti-road Hog League to Protect Pedestrians and Careful Drivers. Sydney
At a public meeting, at which it was decided to constitute an Anti-Road-Hog League, it was stated that motor car accidents in Australia were now on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Railway Contract. Sydney
The Railway Commissioners have accepted the tender of the Government Dockyard, Newcastle, for the manufacture and supply of 100 all steel suburban…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycle Smash Fatality at Blayney Sports. Blayney
Roy Moore, aged 20, was killed, and a boy named J. Davis, aged 11, was seriously injured in a smash at the Blayney hospital motor cycle sports yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Injured Motor Car Overturns Tyre Blow-out.--the Cause. Sydney
Five persons were injured when a [?]totrcar overturned, after striking a telegraph pole, near Cronulla, late last night. Cornelius Langsery, 46, sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Railways to Check Financial Losses. Melbourne
The Victorian Cabinet held a further lengthy sitting, in on endeavor to devise some means to stop financial losses on the railways. No decision was come to and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Driver Committed Peculiar Circumstances Alleged Failure to Give Signal. Sydney
Walter Tilston Cunningham, aged 34, a motor driver, was committed for trial at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge that whilst driving a motor car he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trap for Motor Thieves
Motor owners will be interested in the scheme of a [?]chman for reducing losses by theft of such trifles as spare wh[?] has devised a loud and automatic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crushed by Motor Truck. Sydney
Dick Quinn Chinese market gardener, was standing in a store shed at the bottom of Pitt Town, three miles from Windsor, when a motor truck was backed into it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridal Party in Motoring Accident
A motoring accident in which a wedding party, including the bridal couple, were concerned occurred on the Armidale-Uralla road late on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Oar and Lorry Collide
Splintered glass, crumpled mudguards, twisted steel bars, but a total absence of personal injury, were the outstanding features of a motor collision at South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£2,000,000 Inadequate Federal Grant for Roads. Sydney
The Federated Council of the National Roads Association has declared that the Federal grant of £2,000,000. a year for roads is inadequate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fell From Train Australian Killed in Switzerland. London
A message from Berne, Switzerland, reports that a man, who is stated to be an Australian, named Motton, travelling from London to Adelboden, fell from a train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Dead Man and Woman Struck by Train. Sydney
A man was killed a young woman was fatally injured, and another young woman, sister of the dead girl, was seriously injured, when they were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Wrecked Plunged Into River Forty Dead and Thirty Injured Calcutta
Forty were killed and 30 seriously injured, in a railway disaster 100 miles from Rangoon, on the main line to Mandalay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fractured Skull Motor Cyclist Hits Kerb. Sydney
When the bar joining the side car and motor cycle broke at Fairfield this afternoon. a cycle ridden by James Nobel, 26, of Granville, got out of control and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WRECKED Stolen Motor Lorry Four Persons Injured Vehicle Skidded and Overturned. Sydney
Four persons were injured, two seriously, when a motor delivery waggon owned by the Fresh Food and Ice Co. was wreeked in Parramatta…
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