Motors and Motorists Question Box
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
3,499 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 175
Motor Coaches in U.S.A.
In the United Sates the motor coach is providing an alternative service to the trains, and is being used by the railway companies themselves. One night service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Monday, January 19. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Trespassed on Railway
"The defendants were found camping in a powder van in the Newcastle railway goods-yard," said Inspector Rowe, in the cases in which Robert Arthur Briggs,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycling News Harley Davidson-B.S.A
Being under canvas for the week-end was a novel experience for club members, who made Terrigal the destination of their camping run…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ask "The Sun" Your Motor Troubles
"The Newcastle Sun" has sec[?]ed the services of an expert motor engineer, who will answer questions and give advice to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MOTORS Grace for and Pace to Howe's Lagoon Pleasant Sunday Run 50 Miles Trip
For the motorist who does not wish to go too far afield during his Sunday runs, there is a pleasant little 50 miles return trip to Howe's Lagoon, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All Fares to Be Reduced on Newcastle Trams Longest Trip to Be Fourpence Two Sections for Threepence Improved Service Too
In a big effort to popularise the trams, Newcastle Transport Trust this afternoon decided…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Injured Hunter-street Collision Tram and Car
A motor car, turning from Hunter-street West, near, the Co-operative Store into Stewart-avenue, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shouters, Beware Insults to Motorists Youth Admonished
"'Tater, Lady," yelled someone. Incensed by the insulting nickname, Albert Leslie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aberglassy-gosforth Road
Mr. O'Hearn asked the Minister for Local Government in the Legislative Assembly yesterday if he would confer with the Main Roads Board with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Main and Minor Roads Allocation of Funds Attitude of the Shires
The suggestion by the Shires Association contained in a circular sent to the various councils throughout the country that "a substantial proportion of the money…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Road in Disrepair Wiseman's Ferry-Singleton Councils to See Board
Representatives of Cessnock Municipal Council and Kearsley, Colo, and Patrick Plains Shire Councils will wait on the Main Roads Board to-morrow, with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Driver Charged
At the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. L. Maher, J.P., Charles Elliott Cridland, 43, of West Maitland, was charged with having driven a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tramcar Smash Married Couple Hurt
Screams rang out when a tram and a motor car collided near the corner of Stewart-avenue and Hunter-street, Wickham, yesterday afternoon. Brakes were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft of Motor Vehicles
The continued prevalence of theft of motor vehicles has caused the National Roads and Motorists Association to renew its representations to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Restrictions in Motor Trade
The National Roads and Motorists' Association announces the revival of the agitation for the application of the Early Closing and Sunday Trading Acts to petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Penny Fares City Section on Trams All Rates Lower Recent Concessions Extended
The Newcastle Transport Trust resolved yesterday that the concession fares on trams, which up to the present have been in force only within…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crashed Into Fence Motor Cyclist Injured
Following a collision with a motor cycle near the corner of Avondale and Lambton Roads, New Lambton, yesterday, a motor cycle and sidecar crashed through a fence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Trams
The Transport Trust has come in for a good deal of criticism, particularly concerning its determination to cut the losses on the steam trams by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gloves Off in Fight with 'Buses Trams' Bold Bid for Passengers "'Busmen's Hands Tied"
The curtain is rising on a "gloves-off" fight between the trams and the 'buses, for the support of the travelling…
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