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Railways, roads & transport, 1928

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A.

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. reports that during 1927 motor vehicles were registered in N.S.W. at the rate of more than 1200 a week. Allowing for a certain…

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"In the Mud." Motorist's Experience. Washed Down Stream

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 1

The heavy rains in Glen Innes district last Saturday were the cause of much loss and inconvenience to travellers…

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Motor World. News and Notes From the N.R.M.A

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 8

The N.R.M.A. reports that during 1927, motor vehicles were registered in NS.W. at the rate of more than 1200 a week. Allowing for a…

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World's Motoring Record. Ten Miles at 133 M.P.H. (Reuter's Cable). London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 6

A Paris motorist, Charland, claims the world's record for ten miles, which be Covered at the average speed of 133.53 miles per hour…

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The Gravesend Bridge. High-level Bridge Favored

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 2

At the meeting of the Yallaroi Shire Council on Friday correspondence on the above subject was read as follows :…

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Motors & Motoring. Notes by an Expert. Pack Ford Coils Firmly

The Uralla Times · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 5

Misfiring in the case of the Ford engine can sometimes be traced to the coils being loose in their metal box. Pieces of card may be used to…

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Motor Lorry Skidded. Five Persons njured. SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 1

Five persons, three of them of the same family, were seriously injured when a motor lorry containing a picnic party skidded and clashed into a…

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Railway Car Afire. Forty Passengers Escape. ADELAIDE

The Inverell Times · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 1

A railway car caught alight at Gawler station on Saturday morning and was destroyed. About forty passengers escaped from the car without…

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Passionate Protest Against Anglo-Catholic Ritual Retrenchment Labor Criticises Labor. Vctorian Railway Men. MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 1

Bitter attacks on the Hogan ministry for having authorised the dismissal of men were made at meeting of nearly 1000 members of the…

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Knocked Down by Car. Motorist Arrested. SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 1

Alfred Dunn, who was knocked down by a motor car at Rockdale on Friday night, died last night. Patrick Joseph Brown, 43, a…

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Motor World Notes From the N.r.m.a

The Inverell Times · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 7

The N.R.M.A. reports that during 1927 motor vehicles were registered in N.S.W. at the rate of more than 1200 a week. Allowing for a certain…

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Straying Cows Located From Aeroplane

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 4

During Lieutenant Talbot Hammond's stay in Singleton a great many residents of the town and district availed themselves of the…

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The Motor and the Road

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 4

WHAT is to be done with our main roads, fast going to pieces the whole State over under the wear-and- tear of fast-driven traffic ? The view is sometimes expressed in local governing…

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Train Derailed Accident Near Warwick BRISBANE

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

The engine and front carriage of the sleeper strain, travelling to War-wick, was derailed yesterday afternoon. The Sydney mail and the…

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DANGEROUS! Ready to Collapse the Bourke Street Bridge

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 4

Apart from the fact that Bourke Street bridge could not by any stretch of imagination be taken to represent any part in a town…

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"The End of the Road" Film Disappears SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

In January last a man is alleged to have obtained the loan of the film, "The End of the Road," and it is alleged he refused to return it. He…

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In Collision Motor bike and [?] MELBOURNE[?]

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

As the result[?] a motor cycle and [?] last night, [?] Henderson were [?] injured…

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Day of the Motor Crowthan N.s.w. Motor to Every [?]

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 6

Every twelth person in New South Wales [?] and about every [?] by law so [?]…

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State's Motors Total 20,000 More Than 100 Registrations a Day

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 4

During 1927 new [?] were registered in New South Wales at the rate of [?] week or 105 every day including Sundays,…

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Inspection of Roads

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 4

In order that each councillor should he conversant with the road requirements of the shire, other than those thoroughfares in their respective…

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