Hints on the Proper Care of Motor Engines Locating Piston Faults Points to Remember Advice to Amateur Drivers Locating Piston Faults
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 9
Such intricate and deep-seated matters as pistons, cylinder walls, and piston rings are generally religiously shunned by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Glendon Bridge Fences. (To the Editor.)
Singleton Argus · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 3
Sir,—In your issue of the 23rd inst. appears a report of the local Shire dealing with the above, and I.respect fully request a little of your valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Smash Narrowly Averted AT 70 M.P.H. VIENNA, Feb. 1
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1
An attempt to wreck the Ostend-Vienna Express was discovered in the nick of time, and saved the train, carrying over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempt to Wreck Train Narrow Escape of Continental Express. Hundreds of Passengers Aboard. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Vienna
Singleton Argus · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 2
An attempt was made to wreck the Ostend-Vienna express, and but for the driver of .the train it would have been hurled over a precipice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under Influence Motorist Fined P.M's. COMMENT
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 4
Charles Elliot Cridland, a traveller, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court to-day, with having driven a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Strike Of Railwaymen Union Agrees
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 4
Resolutions, couched in strong terms, were carried at a meetinf of the Australian Railways Union, condemning the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strike Urged Decision of Railways Union. Federal Government. Denounced
Singleton Argus · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 2
A mass meeting of members of the Australian Railways Union last night declared itself in favour of a Commonwealth-wide strike,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Harbour Bridge
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 1
The State Cabinet has decided that tram cars are to cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge when it is completed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Near Wreck. Train at Katoomba. Deliberate Act—crowbar on Line
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 1
An express train narrowly escaped disaster near Katoomba early on Saturday morning, when the engine struck a crowbar which had been placed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ACQUITTED Motor Fatality NEWCASTLE
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 5
On the morning of November 1, 1980, a Boy Scout named Donald William McNaughton, aged 12 years, was knocked down by a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hints to Motorists Cleaning Spark Plugs Errors to Be Avoided
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 6
In cleaning spark plugs of the type which can be taken to pieces, many drivers persist in scraping the porcelains. This practice cannot be too strongly condemned, for the protecting glaze is removed and oil and carbon will quickly lodge on the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 6
The N.R.M.A. says that many owners of land who had been glad to accommodate motor campers have…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 2
The continued prevalence of theft of motor vehicles has caused the N.R.M.A. to renew its representations to the Government for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Lights French Regulations
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 6
Anti-dazzle regulations to motorists have come into force with the New Year in France. Each car must now be equipped as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Railway Strike Threatened
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 2
A mass meeting of members of the A.B.U., last week-end decided in favor of a general strike as a protest against the ten per cent, reduction in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traffic and Harbour Bridge Trams As Well As Trains to Bun
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 1
The State Cabinet at its sitting on Monday decided that trams, as well us trains, should be permitted to run across the Sydney Harbour Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Work on Roads Ratepayers' Request to Tarro Shire
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2
Buttai Progress Association wrote to Tarro Shire Council, stating that at a recent meeting a motion was carried to the effect that council be asked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Deviation Wanted Singleton-wollombi-sydney Road
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2
A big movement has been launched the Cessnock, Wollombi, and Kulnura districts with a view of getting a new deviation on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weird Noises on Harbour Bridge Engineers Find Explanation. Ghost Story Exploded
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 1
Sydney. Harbour Bridge lias a "ghost." Engineers say that they have a simple explanation for eerie wails which are heard at irregular…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycling Maitland Club Month's Activities
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 6
The Maitland District Motor Club have completed their run card drawn up for January. Several of the outings proved most enjoyable…
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