£10,000 for Ideas Vic. Railway Policy (By. Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening
During the past five years, the Victorian Railways Department has paid £10,000 to its employees for ideas…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1927
1,010 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 51
Two Boys Killed In Motor Collision (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening
Allan Brown, aged 17, and Harold Simpson, aged 14, were killed at Singleton when a car at a crossing dashed into a motor cycle hey were…
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Owing to the headlights falling, a motor truck, in which three young men were proceeding from Matong to Narrandera on Christmas Eve, ran…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Double Fatality Motoring Mishap Ex-Wyalongite Killed
When driving along Lake Cargelligo road, about six miles fro milliston, on Christmas afternoon, two young men, Henry L. Blomeley (24) and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motorist Killed Collision Near Mount Victoria (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening
John Hunter, aged 22, of Hartley, was riding a motor cycle near Mount Victoria yesterday afternoon, when a motor car dashed into him…
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A sad fatality occurred on the Barmedman-Temora road about 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve, by which a young man named O. R. Neindorf, son of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Notes Setting Throttle for Carburettor Adjusting
It is impossible to make a correct carburettor adjustment unless the throttle closes tight. To make sure that the throttle closes, first move…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Railway
The laying of rails for the Sydney-Broken Hill railway has been completed (says a Broken Hill message) to the approaches to the bridge at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Train Delayed
The motor train from Cootamundra to Forbes yesterday was delayed two hours en route, owing to the late arrival of the mail at Cootamundra…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dispersal Sale W.W. Motors, Ltd
Messrs C. E. Walder & Co. held a big dispersal, sale on Wednesday, afternoon and Thursday morning on account of West Wyalong Motors…
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The Police and Motoring Associations arte rightly drawing particular and emphatic attention to the need for the observance of extra care on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Smash Firewood Rips Car
A motor smash occurred on Tarcutta road, near Wagga. A car, containing six men, when near Forest Hill, was steered to, allow…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Page of Interest to Motorists. Motor Notes Repairs at the Roadside
It often happens that when repairs are necessary at the roadside one has urgent need of a small vyce. It seems rather difficult at first to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Unrest Over Bonus Payments. Sydney
It is reported in union circles in Sydney that certain sections of the railway sections of the railway service are dissatisfied with alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Serious Railway Accident. Near Manildra
MAN'S RIGHT ARM SEVERED A man named Christopher Carthy, said to be a blacksmith of Manildra, met with a serious accident on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Waters Motor Train Delayed
Heavy rainfall was record[?] throughout the Forbes district on Thursday. The motor train from Stockinbingal to Parkes was delayed…
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Forbes missed getting some unwelcome publicity through the railway smash which occurred almost at the town boundary. There were possibilities for staging a second Murulla disaster in this, and the whole world would have read with horror of the…
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It was announced by the Premier (Mr. Lang) that the railway travelling concession to blind[?] civilians which were in operation when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rail Motors Grenfell and Canowindra
Mr. F. J. Williams, Western Area Commissioner, states that next month his Department will be installing rai[?] motors on the Grenfell and Canowi[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dastardly Crime Parkes Motor Man Attacked Countryside Seeks Aggressors
Stating that they required some mechanical assistance with a car which was broken down some five miles or so out of Parkes, on…
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