Motor Camping Popularity Increasing
That Australian business is alive to the big possibilities associated with the increasing popularity of motor caravaning and the use of utility trailers in this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1937
3,526 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 177
Miners Killed in Victoria Motor 'Bus Smash Melbourne
Two miners, Percy Trickey (married) and Alan Smith (single) were killed near Avoca early this morning when a motor bus went off the road…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Late Mr. Thomas Smith Popular Railwayman Passes
Mr. Thomas Guthrie Smith, of Chatham-road, Broadmeadow, wellknown railway official, who died yesterday, was well known for his efforts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Save Tramp Shipping British Subsidies Effective London
I he success of tramp ship-. ping subsidies is an excellent precedent for liners. .. The report on their working says that subsidies have saved it. It provides a reason why unofficial Government supporters will again urge quick action in the ? Pacific. THE REPORT Drescntcd to Parlin-…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Notes
WORLD AVERAGE PRICE FOR PETROL.—The world average price for petrol, according to a statistician. is lOd gallon, plus an average of 8½d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors—for GRACE and PACE
The 1937 Light Vauxhall on in 260-mile test ran…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Motor Cycling Club Acceleration Test
Newcastle Motor Cycling Club began its activities tor 1937 last Saturday when a 220 yards acceleration test was conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electric Train Derailed Sydney
Four carriages on an electric train travelling from Wynyard to Hornsby this morning were derailed between Gordon and Turramurra…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Services Disorganised Washaways in North Gdnnedah
Serious washaways caused by thunderstorms resulted in six trains, including the Brisbane Express, being delayed for some hours yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →East Maitland Barrington Tops Road Council Supports Agitation
The East Maitland Council decided last night to get in touch with the Secretary of the Hunter River and Barrington Tops Tourist Development Zone…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bridge at Peat's N.R.M.A. to Wage Strong Campaign Sydney
A design for a £385,000 bridge across Peat's Ferry has been prepared to the order of the N.R.M.A. It will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Yachting Commodore's Day
A large number of spectators saw "Lady Lot," owned and driven by Rear-Commander J. C. Hewson, win the Commodore's Cup of the Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Land Wanted for Park Reserve City Council Ambitious Request to Premier
Newcastle City Council decided last night to ask the Premier to grant for use as a park reserve the whole of the land immediately adjoining the Civic…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →City Railway Miners Seek New Grading SYDNEY
Tests carried out by the Government Officer for Industrial Hygiene (Dr. Badham) indicate that the atmosphere in the Barrington-street drive of the City…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Work Preference Condemned Reply From Department Sydney
The Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. Lloyd Ross) said to-night that he had received a reply from the Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners Killed Motor-'bus Overturns MELBOURNE
When a motor-'bus, driven by Stanley Trickey, was returning to Avoca this morning, it skidded off the roadway and overturned, and Percy Trickey and Alan…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Orders Strikers Out of Works Judge Involved in U.s.a. Motor Clash
FLINT (Michigan), Tuesday. The strikers who nave seized and occupied two of the works owned here by the General Motors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cars for Ministers Two Sedans for Use of Premier Sydney
The latest additions to the fleet of State Ministerial motor cars are two seven-seater sedans for the use of the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bridge That Must Be Built
THE grandmotherly headshaking of the Government at the agitation for a traffic bridge over the Hawkesbury appears to be based more upon the usual policy of negativeness than upon any reasoned case why it should not be built…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Main Roads Chief on World Tour Sydney
The Commissioner for Main Roads (Mr. H. H. Newell) will leave Sydney by the Orama on March 23 on a tour abroad…
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