Shots at Train. No One Injured. Sydney
An electrin train from Sydney to Parramatta was fired at while passing through Flemington last wight and the bullet shattered a window…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
1,882 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 95
Trampled to Death in Rush From Fume-filled Building. Sixty-nine Children Lose Lives. Grim Story of Parley Horror. London
Eighty children are already dead, and 200 others in hospital, as the result of a fire in a picture theatre at Paisley, Scotland. A cinema was crowded with children when smoke was seen pouring out of the windows. Eire brigades dashed to the theatre, and ran up ladders. There was a wild scramble for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motoring in Java. Land of Teeming Millions. (No. 2.)
Mr. Stanley, C. Wilson, of Armidale, recently returned from a tour of the East. We publish hereunder the second of a series of articles,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Timber for Fruit Cases Free Railway Transport
The Government Gazette of December 27 contains the following by law of interest to fruit-growers in the Kentucky Soldiers' Settlement, with…
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I HAD forgotten tow much I owed To one, and two, and three; I thought I travelled a lonely road, But they were there with me…
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A conference of 27 Victorian and inter-State bodies interested in road transport has decided on the motion of Mr. F. S. Mann (president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Accident Serious Injury SYDNEY
When a single-seater car skidded and somersaulted on the Prince's Highway, near Moruya, E. S. Duckett and a man named Lilley were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat at the Railway An Animated Scene Huge Stacks Accumulating
A visit to the Inverell railway station at any time no is worth white to witness the scene of activity in stacking the many thousands of bags…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warning to Motorists!
During the week a lorry load of wheat got badly bogged in front of the Australian Hotel, at a spot where a leak in the water main has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor World Notes and News From All Quarters. Danger of Coasting. Practice Should he Avoided. Lesson of the "Pinch."
One of the most dangerous practices when driving a car In hilly country, such as New England, is that of coasting down steep hills and relying…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a
The N.R.M.A. says that the condition of the Great Western Highway between Sydney and Bathurst is now very considerably improved. Further…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →RAILWAYS Plan To Make Pay Buses and Trucks To Feed and Relieve Service
The Chief Railway [?], has announced [?] of the methods by which he hopes to improve the position of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cycle Capsizes
On Thursday last Messrs. Reginald Edwards, of Grey Street, and Joseph Higgins, of Church Street met with a nasty accident on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor World News and Notes FROM N.R.M.A.
The N.R.M.A. says that the bridge in course of erection over the Wag[?]nga River on Prince's Highway at Naroola, to replace the power punt,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cheap Train to Sydney
Having successfully negotiated the heavy holiday traffic, for which extensive schedules of cheap trains were provided by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Macintyre Shire Council Lotteries for Hospitals Improving Glen Innes Road
The Macintyre Shire, Council transacted no very important business at its meeting on Saturday, beyond the usual routine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors & Motoring. Speedometer Cable Upkeep
Removing the flexible shaft core from the casing occasionally, and as it is put back into the casing, run it through a handful of grease. This…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Collision Several Injured
Several persons were injured, but only one seriously, when two trams collided at White Bay junction last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trams Collide. Several People Injured. an Inexpected Stop. Sydney
Several people were injured, but only one seriously, when two stains collide at White Bay June[?]n, White [?] night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Killed Level Crossing Fatality Motor Truck Smashed to Fragments. Melbourne
In a level crossing accident near Newport hist night Mrs. AWilson and Mrs. Hodgson were killed and a girl aged seven…
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