Accidents Make Great Inventions
DAWDLING over his lunch caused a man to make a valuable invention and a comfortable…
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DAWDLING over his lunch caused a man to make a valuable invention and a comfortable…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →"A TYRE blew out and the car capsized." Such a sentence often prefaces the description of a car smash, and engenders the belief that the blowing out…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Thayre Joynton Smith, of Phillip-street, Sydney, was fined £5 for dangerous driving by Mr. Scobie, S.M., at the Traffic Court to-day. 30s for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The body of Frank Barry, 61, gardener, who had been missing fiom his home in Nobleavenue, Bankstown, since last Monday morning was found floating in Georges River…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →As a sequel to the collision last October between the British motor ship Silver Palm and the United States cruiser Chicago, an action is being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a car and motor cycle collided at the corner of Joseph and Vaughan streets, Lidcombe, on Monday, Arthur Thomas Burchard, Victoria-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Percy Thomas Milham, of Railway-road, St. Peters, sued Lancelot Reynolds of Amelia-street, Mascot, for £400 damages for injuries received as the result of a motor collision…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whilst cranking a car at Bingam, Mr. Stan Batterham, of Orban, Bingara, suffered a fracture of his right arm above the wrist…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Based on the findings of the Dairen Maritime Court, the Dairen Kisen Kaisha has filed a claim for 79,369 dollars for alleged damage done to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police believe that the body washed up on Seven Mile Beach, Port Kembla, yesterday, is that of Alfred McBurnie, of Ashfield…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Out of control on the Windsor Road, near Parramatta, yesterday, a bus, carrying about 25 passengers, ran off the road and crashed into an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sensational accident occurred in Church-street, Parramatta, about 8.15 a.m. yesterday, when a motor bus crashed into an electric light pole near North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Tuesday the district coroner, Mr. H. Richardson Clark, held an inquest at Parramatta concerning the death of William Lewis Jackson, of Macquarie-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bruce Moore was turning a car into the entrance of the home of Mrs. Lestrange in Grafton on Friday night, when the car somersaulted four times…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →MR. ALAN COOPER'S promising colt, Estevan, is not likely to race again as a two-year-old. While running in the paddock Estevan had a fall which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A motor cyclist and the driver of a horsedrawn vehicle, in widely separated towns, were injured through their coats being caught in the wheels of their vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The body of Frank Barry, 61, gardener, who had been missing from his Home at Bankstown since last Monday morning, was found floating in George's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During a bicycle road race last Saturday afternoon a head-on collision occurred on the Causeway at Kogarah Bay, between a motor cycle, ridden by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hurled to the ground from his bicycle when both forks of the front wheel broke in Concord Road, Concord yesterday, Herbert Eldridge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At an inquiry held this afternoon into the death of Cecil Valentine Howe. 50, bee farmer, whose body was recovered from a waterhole about four miles from Rylstone at 7 o'clock…
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