Crashed Into Bridge
David Gow, 28, living at Gosford, suffered a large lacerated wound to his right thigh, and had a piece of wood embedded in his right lower leg…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
3,457 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 173
Midnight Smash Car and Motor Cycle
On the stroke of midnight, just as the old year closed, a motor car and a motor cycle crashed into each other, near the intersection of Macquarie and Hanbury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Accidents Remarkable Escape Charge Against Car Driver
A motorist had a remarkable escape from serious injury when the car he was driving collided with a tram near the Intersection of Railway and Tudor Streets…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycle Skids
When the motor cycle he was riding over the high-level railway bridge at Gosford skidded and crashed into a fence. David Gow, fireman, of Gosford, had his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorists and Bush Fires
The recent series of bush fires in the Wollondilly Shire, as well as in many other parts of the State, has prompted the President of the Shire Council to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Trunk Line London-Brighton Scheme No Crossings London, November 10
The Bill promoted by the Motor Roads Development Syndicate Ltd. for the construction of a toll road between London and Brighton to accommodate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MOTORS For Grace & Pace Owners' Welfare Need for Organisation Taxation Grabs
Motoring now plays such an important part in our home, business and industrial life that no one associated with automobile…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Skull Fractured Man Dies in Hospital Refused Treatment Victim of Motor Accident?
Admitted to Newcastle Hospital about 4 a.m. to-day, Thomas Danby Jones, 30, who lived at the Salvation Army Hostel, died about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor News (Other Motor News on Page 3) Cattle Help Building Huge Airships Special Skins
More than 1,500,000 cattle will contribute to the making of each of the two 6,000,000 cubic feet airships which will be built for the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Youths Arrested Motor Patrol's Catch Window Broken
A special police motor patrol, on duty last night, was in Steel-street when three men, it is alleged, were noticed breaking the plate-glass…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycling Side-car Advantages Good Performance
The solo motor cycle makes very little appeal to many people who are no longer young, but who are still able to ride a bicycle, for the simple…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Dies Hit by Motor Lorry
Following an accident in which he was hit by a lorry in Maitland-road, Mayfield, yesterday afternoon, Frank Nelson, seven years of age, died in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor World Opening of Roads
Modern roads only recently constructed continue to the opened up at various points around the suburbs, says the N.R.M.A. In many instances the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Killed by Train
Francis O'Neill, a railway fettler, was cut to pieces when a train crashed into the railway tricycle he was using to take him to a part of the line which required…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Theory Body in Train Mystery Alive at Newcastle?
That Archibald Currie McCullum, whose body was found in the Tamworth mail at Greta on November 20, was alive when the train left…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sudden Collapse Motor Smash Victim
A sudden collapse hours after he had apparently escaped unhurt from a serious motor collision, led to the death of Thomas Denbeigh Jones (32), formerly a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Output of Motor Ships World's Record London
The world's output of motor ships for 1928 was a record, 189 vessels, of 1,177,235 gross tonnage, compared with 137 vessels of 816,000 tons in 1927…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Too Dangerous" Drunken Motor Drivers Heavy Fine Must Protect the Public
"It is too dangerous, both to yourself and to the public. I would not be doing my duty to the public If I did not protect them from persons who are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eight-mile Tunnel Great Northern U.S.A. Railway SEATTLE
An eight-mile tunnel, on the Great Northern Railway, obviating 18 miles of winding tracks, through the mountains, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Motor Ships
London, Tuesday. — The world's output in motor ships for 1928 has been a record, totalling 189 vessels, of 1,177,235 gross tonnage, as compared…
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