Motor Taxes Divided British Views LONDON
That the much-criticised horse-power tax had to a certain extent kept out cheap, high-powered American cars, while British light cars had…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1927
3,010 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 151
Sydney Motor Show SYDNEY
It is estimater that the cost of running the motor show, which is in progress at the Royal Agricultural Ground, is £800 a day, or £6400 for…
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The Railway Department announces the issue of cheap excursion tickets to Sydney and intermediate stations on the morning of January 26…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ran Into Post Motorist Injured
In endeavoring to avoid a collision, while driving a car in Allendale-road, Cessnock, late yesterday afternoon, Claude Hayes, miner, of Keinibah,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cairns Isolated Many Washaways Railway Bungling Cairns
Owing to washaways and floods on the North Coast line, Cairns is cut off from communication with the south except by telephone, telegraph and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nelson's Bay-road Action by Shire
At the first meeting in the new year of the Port Stephens Shire Council, a letter was read from Mr. J. M. Baddeley, Minister for Labour and Industry,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fell From Train Mail Passenger Hurt Midnight Alarm Staggered to Station
Dazed, and in pain from injured riba, James O'Neill, 47, who fell from the South Grafton mail train as it raced between Adamstown and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Summons Division. Motor Traffic Regulations
For driving a motor car in Watt-street, "Newcastle, on December 31. without having a license, Thomas Aitken was fined £1, with 8s costs, in default, seven days'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tramway Presentations
Mr. H. Williams presided at a gathering held yesterday at Gordon-avenue, Hamilton, tramway workshops, when presentations were male to Mr. W. B. White,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Singapore to London Wonderful Motor Record. London, December 16, 1926
To travel for nearly 15 months in a solid-tyred "Trojan" car from Singapore to London, and thus to cover 12,000 miles through 14 different countries, has been…
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Mr. Lloyd Price, the Agent-General for South Australia, addressing the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, condemned the British system of taxing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speers' Point Tramway Question by Mr. Connell Sydney
In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. H. Connell asked Mr. Flannery, the Minister for Railways, whether his attention had been drawn to the reports…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alice Springs Railway Turning the First Sod. Oodnadatta
Mr. W. C. Hill, the Federal Minister for Works and Railways, turned the first sod of the railway from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs, on the western side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Popular Railway Officer
Mr. J. Prentice, who has been promoted from the position of Assistant Railway Superintendent at Newcastle to District Railway Superintendent at South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Wallsend Trams Sydney
Mr. W. P. J. Skelton, M.P., interviewed the Railway Commissioners to-day, inquiring as to their proposals in connection with the steam tramway lines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Defied Desert French Motorist's Feat Small Car's Trip
A French motorist has travelled from Paris to Nigeria, West Africa, in eight days, crossing the Sahara Desert in a small six-horse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fell From Train
James O'Neill, 47, a quarryman, employed by the Railway Commissioners at Bexhill Quarry, near Lismore, on the North Coast, fell from the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Roads to Ruin
FROM time to time the Premier (Mr. Lang) makes some remarks about the competition of motor vehicles with the railways, from which one is almost tempted to conclude that good roads are to be regarded as an evil. For it is good roads that give the motor vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dangerous Drain Glebe-road Problem
What was to be done with a deep drain alongside the Globe-Adamstown road, was a question asked at Merewether Council's last meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cardiff Resident Killed Run Over by Train
The body of Francis Callaghan, 72. widower, a caretaker, living at Cardiff, was found at 10.20 p.m. on Saturday alongside the railway line, about 150 yards on the…
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