Motor Notes. Ten Days' Trial of the R.A.C.A.
On Thursday, March 10, the competing cars in the ten days' trial of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia left the Sydney Club rooms on…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1927
841 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 9 of 43
Snake on Train
Some excitement was caused on the up north coast mail tram one morning last week. When it was discovered that a carpet snake, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barrington Tops Offer to Assist in Road Construction £5000 to Be Spent From Scone Side
We understand that the Main Roads Board has made an offer of £5000 to be expended on the Dry Creek-Tomalia road, to the end of commending the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dungog to Comboyne A Motor Trip of Unsurpassable Charm, Through Waving Forests, by Wooded Hills and Through Smiling Valleys
There are places along the X.S.W. coast, northwards of Port Stephen. where it would seem that Nature sets herself out to enchant the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Main Roads. (To The Editor)
Sir:-- In your last issue Cr. Connors is, reported to have said at the last meeting of the Shire Council: "The instigators of this idea were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commandments of the Road
First: Be considerate. Second: Go slow; first passing children; second, passing vehicles; third, approaching crossings; fourth, turning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Grant. for Portion of Taylor's Arm Road. £8000 to Be Spent. Council Adopts Board's
A special meeting of the Nambucca Shire Council was held on Wednesday last for the purpose of discussing matters pertaining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Hold-up
On Thursday morning the Kempsay mail was held up for some time at Charity Creek Bridge, in consequence of a horse fouling the traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Morris Motor Methods
One machine in the factory of Morris Engines (Coventry), Ltd., weighs more than 300 tons and caters for more than 50 working stages where different…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maxims for Mad Motorists
Remember the other fellow's got brakes, too. What's the wrong side of the road for, anyhow?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motors and Motorists. Adjust Spark to Speed
The control of the advance and retard lever is too often neglected; and in most cases the top-gear performance of a car can be materially improved by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Train Robbers
It was quite in the recognised melodramatic way that French bandits recently held up a Paris express by placing red lights upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kendall-Comboyne Road Residents Urge Council to Proceed with the Work
At Hastings Shire Council meeting on Monday, a deputation from Camden Haven was introduced by Cr. Breckenridge to urge council to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Notes. Victorian Dependability Contest
The annual long distance dependability contest of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria started from Melbourne on March 19, and is due…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Watch that Honk! Motorists Warned
In his weekly traffic bulletin, the Commissioner of Police Mr. J. Mitchell warns Motorists concerning the annoyance caused to the public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Exhibits. Motor Section
In keeping with the remarkable growth of motor transport in the district, the exhibition in this section was also correspondingly larger, and some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Roads
"Good Roads" is a slogan which has been adopted throughout Australia, and the necessity for good roads becomes more obvious day by…
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Attention is directed to the inconsiderate habit of many motorists who make a practice of speeding over new stretches of metal, which have had…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motors and Motorists. Road Repairs and Motor Traffic
The N.R.M.A. is again bringing before the notice of the local authorities engaged in road repair and re-construction work the urgent necessity, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Useful on Gate Strewn Roads
"North-west Champion," of Moree, tells of an invention that would be a boon to travellers on district roads strewn with public gates of a more…
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