Motoring High Speed Little Time Saved Where Traffic Is Heavy
Some interesting tests were recently conducted in America, which have proved beyond doubt that speed in congested areas does not save any time worth worrying…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
4,000 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 200
Agencies Shuffled Studebaker at Modern Motors
Modern Motors are now sole dealers for Newcastle for Studebaker and Erskine products, at their showrooms, 354 Hunter-street, Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor News (Continued from Page 3) New Metals Progress in 1930 Cars Stainless Steel
Many of the materials that go into motor cars to-day are different from those of even so short a time ago as last January, when the 1929…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MOTORS For Grace & Pace Lusk Fastest Flying and Acceleration Tests Auto Club Results J. Jack Wins Slow Run and Speed Judging
Fred Lusk, in a Chevrolet Six, made fastest time in the Bacon Cup point score competition events, a flying quarter mile and an acceleration test, held by Newcastle Auto Club on Raymond Terrace-rond last Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Long Road
Victor Seghetti as[?]de the bicycle he pedalled from Rucnos Aires, Argentina, to New York. He took 20 months, and used 16 sets of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed by Train Sydney
Allan Jones of Dubbe a railway guard, was crushed to death when he fell between the buffers of a train at Narromine railway station last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RAILWAYMEN Conference on May 21
Mr. A. E. Chapman, Secretary of the Railways Union has informed the sub-branch secretaries in the north that the annual State conference of the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Midlands Railway Co. London, January 13
The Midlands Railway Co. of West Australia, Ltd., had a credit balance in its profit and loss account for the year ended. June 30 of £94,368 A 4 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Level Crossings
On Ald. Felton's suggestion. Stockton Council decided last night to ask the Railway Department to instal a bell at Merewether-street gates, to warn the master…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stolen Motor Tube
For having had in his possession on January 9, a motor tube, reasonably suspected of having been stolen, John Ryan, 47, laborer, was fined £2, in default…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Should We Buy Our Own Tramways?
IS Newcastle's tramway system worth approximately £950,000? That is the main question Newcastle civic authorities are worrying about in the proposal to transfer the system to local ownership. In view of the heavy annual loss, and under the present system of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bridge Torn-up Council Annoyed
When reports of another attack on Rothbury were pouring into the police camp last week, portion of a timber bridge on the Rothbury-Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Car Overturns Belmont-road Crash
A man and a woman were slightly injured when a motor car crashed into a culvert and overturned on the Belmont-Newcastle Road late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Harbour Thrill Weight Falls From Bridge SYDNEY
The driver of a motor lorry was injured, but not seriously, and a few motor cars were damaged, when an iron balance weight, suspended from the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Safety on Roads "Give and Take" System Police Chief's Viewpoint
"The logical solution of the traffic problem is one of give and take between pedestrian and pedestrian, motorist and motorist, and motorist and pedestrian," said the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ganger Attacked Railway Station Robbery Melbourne
Late last night J. Grimmett, ganger, living near Monea railway station, about 80 miles from Melbourne, heard a noise in the booking office. When he approached…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railways Union Delegates to Conference
Messrs. Hooper and Bainbridge (Newcastle) and Hadfield (Waratah) have been appointed delegates to the annual conference of the Australian Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charges Amended Rothbury Railway Cases
The cases in which a number of men stood charged with having, at Branxton, on December 16, 1929, maliciously removed two rails belonging to the Rothbnry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →All Used! Railways' Rothbury Coal
It was learnt on reliable authority this afternoon that all the coal so far brought from Rothbury to Newcastle has been used by the Railway Department…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Lambton-road
Sir,—A very gross injustice has been caused by New Lambton Council. Two gentlemen have their homes on a secluded part in the wood at the top of St…
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