Wallsend Rates Money for Road Work
Wallsend municipal estimates for 1928, presented at a special meeting of the council last night, showed that an amount of £3433 9s 9d would be…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
3,252 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 163
Unsolved Mystery Found Dead on Train Widow's Claim
An echo of an unsolved railway mystery was heard at Shoreditch County Court when a claim was made under the Workmen's Compensation…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Road Broke to Cessnock Information Wanted
As the result of an interview with the Main Roads Board relative to the construction of a road connecting Broke and Cessnock, Mr. Buddeley,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Reports N.R.M.A. Information
The Newcastle brunch of the N.R.M.A. has supplied the following road information:— Gosford to Woy Woy: Passing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cost to Much Maitland-road Construction Tarro Problem
"The liability imposed on the council by the reconstruction and maintenance of the Newcastle and Maitland road is such that it cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"A Mess!" Visitor Criticises Newcastle Roads Improvement Scheme "Base Town-Planning on English Experience"
"Newcastle district roads are a mess" was the frank comment of Mr. D. C. P. Moore, Secretary of the Roads improvement Association (incorporated) of London, now in Newcastle. "Get some public-spirited citizen to call a conference of all…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wallsend Motor Cycling
A tourist trophy type of race was hold by the Wallsend Motor Cycle Club last Saturday. Owing to the fact that most of the members did not have their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clearing the Way for the Motorist
The Rotary snow Plough in action in the snow-bound Old World. It is opening up a route for the mail coach and motor traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MOTORS for Grace Pace Light Car Comfort Details and Claims of the New Ford Special Australian Model "Easy to Control, Economical, and Speedy"
Full details of the new Ford car have now been made available by Ford Motor Company of Australia, Propietary, Limited These specifications apply to the American as well as the Canadian car and also to the model for Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Veteran Death of Mr. E. Thompson SYDNEY
Mr. Edward Thompson, who died at his home at Milson-road, Cremorne, Sydney, on Sunday, was formerly Chief Superintendent of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Quick Work Putting Trams on Line SYDNEY
A new breakdown appliance that can lift and replace a derailed tram car on the lines in less than [?] minutes has been placed in service…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motors for Grace and Pace Remarkable Test Long Run at High Speed La Salle Feat
"Truly amazing; the most astonishing automobile performance I have ever witnessed—and I have seen the outstanding events in the motoring…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glaring Headlights Motorists Complain
Numerous complaints against glaring headlights continue to reach the N.R.M.A. offices, and some of those are of a serious character, in that they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Skidded Into 'Bus Motor Cyclist Killed SYDNEY
Failing from the pillion of a motor cycle in Darlinghurst-road, near Burton-street, Darlinghurst, Allan Squelander, aged 20, of Riley-street, City,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motors for Grace and Pace Silent Wolseley Smooth-powered and Sturdy Details of New Six
An obvious care in design and sturdiness in construction, an accessibility which should minimise service tasks and a silence in operation which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motors for Grace and Pace Motor Cycling Newcastle Club Hill Climb
Newcastle Motor Cycle Club will hold a gnus hill-climb next Saturday at Merewether. A similar competition held some time ago caused much…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Home on Wheels For Motor Tours Trailer Caravan
No more enjoyable acquisition to the motor car has ever been invented than the trailer caravan. It enable car-owners to enjoy some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WORTH £177,000,000 Canada's Motor Output
Since the first motor plant was built in Canada in 1904 a total of 1.206,929 motor vehicles have been produced in that country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Wilful Waste" Main Roads Board Attacked Stockton Road
"It was a scandalous waste of money. The road is worse now than before. If it is a fair sample of the way in which the Main Roads…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hidden Beauty Wangi Wants Roads
Wangi Peninsula Progress Association has set itself the task of making the southern end of Lake Macquarie more accessible to the public…
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