Three Killed Motor Car Overturns
A motor car containing Mr. A.B. Armour, a well-known owner of racehorses. Mr. Joseph Biggins, who was recently appointed handicapper…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
4,060 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 203
Motor Notes News and Notes From the N.r.m.a
Bumper bars of rubber, instead of metal, are now being used in England. In construction they resemble thicktread tyres. Advantages claimed are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Offences More Drastic Punishment Suggested
A prominent Sydney legal man, in a report to the National Safety Council of Australia, suggested that magistrates should have powers, as in South…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Minimbah-morisset Railway
Cessnock Combined Progress Association has solved a novel method to obtain signatures to a petition for the construction of the Minimbah to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →All Steel Train. First in Australia. Operating on Illawarra Line. Sydney
The first, exclusively all-steel passenger' train in Australia, was put into service on the Illawarra line to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Somersaulted Twice Motor Smash Sear. Temora. One Killed: Two Injured. Sydney
A Tomera message states that Harold Monan, 19, was killed, and two passengers injured when a motor car, which he was driving turned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Injured. Motor Cycle Collides with Lorry
When a motor cyclo came into collision with a motor lorry at Waratah on Saturday evening two men were Injured, one seriously. The motor cyclo was being driven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Line Damaged. Cloudburst Near Narrandera
A heavy rainstorm, accompanted by terrific thunder and vivid lightning, at Narrandera, in the town 41 points were registered, but falls…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fares to Be Printed on Tickets. Public Need Now To Be Met. SYNDEY
The Railway Commissioners have at last agreed to print the fares on railway tickets, and, on all future supplies of tickets…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bathurst Speedway. Inquiry in Motor Cyclist's Death
A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner at an inquest at Bathurst concerning the death of Harold Moore, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Notes. an Unusual Magneto Trooble
Being very bothered by intermittent misfiring in a four-cylinder engine recently, one owner, after much inquisition amongst the sparking…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hurled Through Hood. Woman Injured in Motor Smash
Bertha Dertheglen, 23, and Stanley George, 23, and narrow escapes when two motor cars collided on the Parramatta road, Lidcombe, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aeroplane Tour. 2000 Miles in Four Days
With a tourist, who is on a brief visit to the State as passenger, Captain Percival, who often wings his way to Muswellbrook, returned to Sydney in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muswellbrook from Above. Passenger Flights in Aeroplane
Anyone who has longed to travel in an aeroplane will have his desires fulfilled this week. Licutenant H. T. Hammond reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prisoner Escapes From Train
Jumping from a train which was travelling at 40 miles an hour between. Bungeridore and Mount Fairy, Henry Jones,, who was being taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclist Injured Weston Bridge Accident
When he was struck by a motor oar at Dip Weston overhead bridge on Sunday afternoon, Cecil Horder, 22, of Bourke-street, West…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Singleton Letter. Re-decking Gowrie Bridge
At the monthly meeting of Singleton Chamber of Commerce, Mr. A. G. Brady introduced the subject of redecking Gowrie Bridge, so that it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All Steel Passenger Train First in Australia Sydney
The first exclusively all-steel passenger train in Australia was put into service on the Illawarra, line to-day. The train, which is for use on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling. Bennett and Wood Cup. Five Milks Road Race
The first race of a serles conducted by the Maitland Bicycle Club for the Bennett and Wood Cup was run ever a course from the Town Hall to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Muswellbrook Shire Council. Monthly Meeting. Gates on Roads—power Roller Costs—cutting Down Hills Opposed—municipal Council Declines to Cooperate
The monthly meeting of the Muswellbrook Shire Council was held on Friday last, when there were present:— Crs. D. M. Bell (president), J…
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