On Buffers Perilous Train Ride
A determined and dangerous attempt to obtain free travel from Sydney to Melbourne was made by a man on Saturday night…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
3,969 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 56 of 199
Toll of the Roads Deaths in France, Paris. April 7
Deaths from road accidents in France in 1928 totalled 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycle Trial Eighty. Miles Run. CESSNOcK
Cessnock Motor Cycle Club held an nighty miles reliability trial yesterday, the course being from Cessnock to Newcastle via Maitland, to Spiers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Notes. the Dangers of Tinkering
Some motorists are never happy unless they are tinkering with their cars; others go to the other extreme and almost let their cars rattle to pieces be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cycle Skids
Thomas Tumos, 19, living at Bellbird, was riding a motor cycle along Regent-street, on Sunday afternoon, when it skidded, throwing him to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland District Motor Cycle Club
The monthly meeting of the Maitland District Motor Cycle Club was hold at Bennett and Wood's, there being a good attendance of members,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Track Crash. Australian Motorist Injured
While racing on the dirt tragic at the Wollington (N.Z.) Stadium, D. Managh fell, and Max Graham, an Australian rider who was close behind, crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reso Train
Between 20 and 30 cars with drivers are wanted to take the visiting Victorian dairyfarmers on a tour to Wangat next Thursday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reserves for Motorists. New Road to Newcastle
The Under-Secretary for Lands (Mr. W. J. Roper) has expressed to the N.R.M.A. the sympathy of his department with the effort to set up a series…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dissatisfied. Harbour Bridge Workers. Sydney
Work on the Sydney. Harbour Bridge was suspended this morning to enable the men to hold a stop-work meeting to ventilate their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amateur Cycling Hindmarsh Wins Road Race Five Riders Fall
Cessnock Amateur Cycle Club held a 10-mile road race on Saturday afternoon. There were 20 starters, and the event resulted:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Reso Train. Scone To-morrow (Wednesday). Appeal to Car Owners
A public meeting, which was well attended, and presided over by Mr. G. Plummer, last night finalised arrangements in connection with to-morrow's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Losses Tasmanian Floods. Railway Lines Out of Commission. Hobart, Tuesday. Almost every railway line in
Tasmania is out of commission because of destroyed bridges or serious washaways, The State Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terribly Crushed Tram Conductor Killed. Sydney
George Laidlaw, 40, a tram conductor, of Surry Hills, was fatally injured last night when he was crushed between two trams…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Motor Club. Easter Tour
Setting out on Good Friday morning at 8.30, the party under the captain, Harold Claydon, and piloted by the president, J. C. Cameron, eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Port Stephens Pindimar Railway. Referred to Committee. Sydney
The Legislative Assembly to-night had before it a proposal to refer to the Works Committee for inquiry and report a proposal to construct a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Railway Line Morpeth-Pindimar
Hon. Walter Bennett, Member for Gloucester, speaking on the above proposal when it was referred to the Public Works Committee, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrington Tops Successful Motor Tour
The Easter tour to Barrington Tops, organised by the N.R.M.A. in conjunction with Mr. L. Cavalier, of Newcastle, was thoroughly enjoyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor-cycle Trial All Have "Clean Sheets"
"For the first time in this State, so far as any of us here know, all the competitors in a motor cycle reliability trial have finished without…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Great Success Motor Trip to Lochinvar Church of England Function
The motor trip to Lochinvar on Sunday, held under the auspicies of the Parochial Council of St. John's Church of England, was a great…
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