Aeroplane Up 20,100 Feet Sydney Flier's Performance
Mr John Kingsford Smith, a nephew of the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, broke his own Australian altitude record for a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
2,371 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 119
Fell Between Train and Platform
Lilian Phillips, 12 years of age, of Richmond, escaped with a slight injury to a shoulder when she fell between the platform and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Way to Reduce Motor Car Accidents Preach and Teach Road Safety
Sir Stenson Cooke, who has been secretary of the Automobile Association of Great Britain since its inception in 1905, said, on his arrival in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Conditions Tamworth to Moree
Reporting on the road from Tamworth to Morec by way of Barraba and Warialda, the N.R.M.A. touring department advises that over a…
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Lightly weighted and one who has proved himself over similar distances with much greater burdens, Pooley Bridge is favoured…
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Before Mr Justice Milner Stephen, in the Causes Court, Sydney, on Wednesday, Margaret Hunter, of Vaucluse, was awarded £2250 damages…
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In the Causes Court Mrs. Margaret May Duncan, of Unanderra, was awarded £2000—the amount claimed—in the action she brought against…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car Crashes Into Train Two Men Slightly Injured. Sydney
Two young men, K. Bramley and A. Larrighy were slightly injured, while three others had a remarkable escape, when a motor car crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Level Crossing. Car and Goods Train. Sydney
Two young men, K. Rownley and A. Larighy, were slightly injured, while three others had remarkable escapes, when a motor car crashed into a goods…
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Mrs Margaret May Duncan, of Unandeera, was awarded £2000—the amount claimed—in the Causes Court in Sydney yesterday, in the action…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aberdeen Railway Smash Recalled. Actor's Strange Toast. to Actress
One of Australia's worst railway disasters was recalled in London recently, when Warde Morgan, 40 year old actor, toasted Marie Burke, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Trespassers Singleton, Friday. I
In the Singleton Court, before Messrs. F. Pocock and P. K. Ryan, Js.P., Arthur William Armstrong and Maxwell Beard, strangers, both 18…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist Fined Stockton Collision NEWCASTLE
In the afternoon of August 18, 1937, a motor car driven by Aubrey Thomas Cole, of Stockton, collided with taxi cab. The collision occurred at a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Profits British Surplus
Although the gross revenue figures for 1937 are not yet available, statistics to hand show that railway earnings in Britain for the year have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victim of Motor Smash Dies. West Cessnock Accident
Noel Potter, 28, of O'Brien Street, Cessnock, who was seriously hurt when the motor cycle he was riding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sport and Sportsmen in the Sporting Limelight of the Week. Swimming: The Big Carnival. CRICKET: Spring Creek. FOOTBALL: Muswellbrook, Denman. BOWLS: B. McKenzie, A. Coiefax, A. Peachey, J. Lowe, C. Brown, A. Whitehead, J. Burrows, E. Peel. the Rifle: Aberdeen. Greyhound Racing. A. Kirk, Mrs. H. Bridge, W. Day, W. Osborne, H. A. Castledine, F. C. Brecht. Swimming. Carnival on Saturday Night
Swimming takes pride of place in the "Scouts" weekly sporting notes, for on to-morrow (Saturday) night, the biggest, brightest, and best…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coloured Roads for Safety
A suggestion was recently made to i tho N.R.M.A. that top-dressing of different colours be used on opposite sides of main bitumenous highways as…
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LIFE VICTORIOUS. For the average person life is as variable as a tropical climate. To every one of us as we make, the voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New System Motor Car Distribution Local Industry
No longer will the business of assembling, producing and distributing motor cars in Australia be dominated by companies controlled from…
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For the first time in Australia, and under the auspices of the Institution of Automotive Engineers of Australia, engineering problems as…
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