Prisoner Makes Daring Escape From Mail Train Into Night Officer Eluded Big Search Wingham
A prisoner made a daring escape from the Brisbane express while the train was halted at Somerset, between…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1931
1,933 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 97
Huge Loss Oh Our Railways Latest Figures Sydney
Some highly interesting figures regarding the operations of railways in Australia, have been released by the Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OPPERMAN Riding in France Motor-paced Paris, May 22
Disapproval at the abandonment of Paris-Bordeaux race owing to insufficient Lunds led the newspaper "L'Auto" to devise more acceptable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SINGLETON Motor Cycle Fatality the Inquest Singleton
The District Coroner (Mr. Alex. Morrison) returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest concerning the death of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →World's Record Motor Cycle Speed 153 Miles an Hour London, May 19
The Australian motor cyclist, Simcock, covered a kilometre in 14.53 seconds, equivalent to 153.9 miles an hour, beating…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Car Hits Tree Motorist Hurt NEWCASTLE
Swerving off the Awaba-road, a motor car crashed Into a tree, and J. Shearer, 65, of Hunter-street, Newcastle, who was sitting on the front…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sudden Death Tram Kills Woman SYDNEY
An unidentified woman, aged about 35, was killed by a tram which ran over her near Long Bay Penitentary late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hints for Motorists Decarbonising an Engine How It Should Be Done
Each front and rear wheel should revolve truly on its axis. The hest method of testing this is to jack each wheel up and turn it if [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →GRETA Railway Ambulance Awards Gained
The annual examinations for the corps was held at Greata, and the following candidates were successful:…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Transport Bill Use of Motor Revenue
The Sydney Chamber of Commerce directed attention of the Newcastle Chamber to the Transport Bill, which the Government proposes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck by Car Motor Cyclists Hurt Two in Hospital
While driving a motor cycle towards Maitland on the Whit-tingham Flat-road, Singleton, about 4 o'clock on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hints for Motorists Shock Absorber Upkeep the Sluggish Engine
It a patch is applied to a long silt in a tube in the usual manner the slit will have a tendency to lengthen beyond the patch and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Transport Bill Motor Users' Protest
A vigorous protest against the provisions of the Transport Bill, the first reading of which was agreed to in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridge Street Footpaths
Council's workmen have completed the first section of laying down the concrete blocks in Bridge-street. The scheme, which is mostly an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Craze for Bridge—"injuring Moral Fibre."
"The hold that auction bridge has obtained over many women and young girls is causing iniquitous breaking down of the moral fibre of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Partly Naked. Found on Road Paxton Miner Cessnock
Considerable alarm was felt yesterday afternoon by his workmates and friends, when it was reported that Alfred Beckett, 30, was missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Railways Loss for Year £8,216,424
The Acting Commonwealth (Statistician states that at June 30, 1930, there were 27,477 miles of railways open for general traffic in Australia, of which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wiseman's Ferry Survey for Road
The Main Roads Board has advised public bodies in the Lower Hawkesbury district that, with a view to completing the new river…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Matters (To the Editor)
Sir,—The repent, Hunter river flood submerging the farming lands, has for the time materially reduced the main source of income upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News in Brief Motor Tax Refunds
The Commissioner of Road Transport advises the N.R.M.A. that action is being taken to remove any complaints of delay in the refunding…
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