Motoring Fitting Oversize Spanners
The idea of using packing pieces between the jaws' of a spanner and a nut in order to make them fit properly, is [?]y no means new, but the packing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Riverina · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1929
2,845 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 143
Sleepers on Railway. Youth Sent to Gaol MELBOURNE
As a result of the discovery of two railway sleepers across the rails near Bacchus Marsh on January 6, just as the Adelaide express arrived at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Radio on the Motor Bus
The first radio-equipped coach in Australia now runs between Sydney and Goulburn. The receiver is a five valve, the aerial being hidden…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor World News and Notes From The N. R. M. A.
Those who are In intimate touch with the world's automobile markets estimate that open cars will constitute less than 10 per cent, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Water—and a Railway Station
A keen controversy is raging between the Railway Commissioner and the Government regarding the site of the railway station that will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Motoring Fatality. [?]
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Notes Universal Joints
Most modern cars are fitted with either fabric or metal-to-metal universal joints, and both types arc notable for long life. If the joint is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter and Motor Cars
The extraordinary popularity of motor vehicles for commercial and pleasure purposes in Australia prompts consideration of the question why…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hit and Run Motorist Melbourne
Ian Forrester, aged 26 years, the driver, and Alfred Birch, his pillion passenger, were standing by their motor cycle in St Kilda road, Elwood,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Mishaps Car Out of Control Five Men Injured Melbourne
Getting out of control, a motor car, driven by William Doyle, skidded and overturned at Craigieburn. The injured are: William Doyle, aged 34 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Improvement of Roads
The attention that has been given to road improvement in the country districts in recent years is apparent in many directions, and good progress…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed by Goods Train Melbourne
A man named Allison, aged 22 years, a commercial traveller, was decapitated by a goods train at Box Hill to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Wrecker Foiled by Farmer Brisbane
It is learned that an attempt was recently made to wreck a matt train between Innisfail and Cairns. A farmer row a stranger, whose movements were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Head Almost Severed Farmer Struck by Aeroplane Pilot and Mechanic Injured Sydney
A MOTH aeroplane was concerned in a fatal accident yesterday morning. The machine left the aerodrome at Richmond at 10.30…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Head Almost Severed Farmer Struck by Aeroplane Pilot and Mechanic Injured Machine Destroyed By Fire SYDNEY
A Moth aeroplane was concerned in a fatal accident this morning. The machine left the aerodrome at Richmond at 10.30 o'clock and worked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →He Didn't Stop Flying Motorist Hits Flying Cloud
"Gundagai Independent" says:—About 9 o'clock on Saturday evening, Mr. Neville Horsley, coming in from his holding out in the direction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Notes When Should Tappets Be Set?
In regard to the setting of the valve tappets there is something of a controversy, but all authorities concur in the opinion that this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fatality Adelaide
An unknown man, aged about 69 years, was run down, and killed to-day by a rail motor train which runs between Dudley Park and Ovington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record in Railway Handling
Mr. T. Hudson, district railway superintendent, says a record has been established in the handling of the wheat traffic for the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerodrome Problem
The secretary of the Wagga branch of the Employers' Federation, Mr. A. H. Gitchrist, said yesterday that Wagga will be sadly left behind other…
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