Motor Car Reliability Contest
At a meeting of the Automobile Club on Monday evening several matters dealing with the two-day motor car trial recently run from Parramatta to Bathurst and back were…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
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Cycle and Motor Local Notes
The Burwood Bicycle Club decided an eight miles road race for members on Saturday over the Burwood-Bankstown course. There were 12 competitors. The result was…
Continued on Trove, page 374 →The Sydney Trams
Mr. Frank Bullen, the well-known author, in writing in a London paper of his recent visit to Sydney, says:—"In spite of the long time which has elapsed since my last visit—…
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In response to an invitation from the boys "Longstaff" hopped aboard a jigger, and lit out for Bondi to witness the grand final battle for the gold medal at genial Jack…
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A number of residents of the eastern suburbs, including the aldermen of Woollatra and Paddington, attended at the Woollahra Council-chambers on Monday evening for the purpose of taking steps to celebrate the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Deniliquin-moama Railway Company
DENILIQUIN, Tuesday.--The half-yearly meeting of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was held to-day. The directors' report congratulated shareholders upon the…
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A Mr. Cochrane has, according to an English paper, invented a novel form of motor boat propeller, which was originally designed for aeronautical purposes. The mechanism is so constructed that instead of revolving,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor-cycling
To-night the members, of the Pioneer-Motor Cycle Club are engaged racing at the Cyclists' Association meeting at the Sports' Ground, in a handicap over 1½ miles. Entries for the club's two-mile members' handicap at the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Erskineville Tram Extension. Turning First Sod
The ceremony of turning the first acd of the Abercrombie-street-Erskineville tram will be performed at 3.30 p.m. to-day by the Minister for Works, opposite the Erskineville Town-hall. For some time past, a large…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Motor Car Craze—An Inoidont of the Reliability Test
The recent motor car reliability test, from Parramatta to Bathurst and back, had at least one comic incident. Some children at Little Hartley (through which the course of the cars lay) were so taken with the competing cars on the first day that they immediately set to work and built the "car" illustrated above. The "car" was in running trim by the following…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →High Railway Freights
A conference of delegates, representing the Western centres, was held at the Town Hall, Bathurst, on January 31, for the purpose of arranging a plan of action to bring about a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Through St. Gothard. the Finest Railway Ride in Europe
When the Simplon Tunnel was opened for passenger traffic in May last people began to say that the St. Gothard Railway was then shorn of its glory. For twenty-four…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Cycling and Motoring Notes
The Eastern Suburbs Bicycle Club has decided to erect a miniature rifle range at the clubrooms. The Tamworth Cycle and Motor Club has a…
Continued on Trove, page 51 →Railway and Tramway Men
Preparations are being made for the annual general meeting of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, which is to be held at the Trades Hall about the middle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Erskineville Tramway. Turing the First Sod. an Interesting Ceremony
At Erskineville yesterday the turning of the first sod of the Abercrombie-street tramway, took place in front of the local Town Hall, and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed among the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Erskineville Tram. Turning the First Sod. Success of the Tramway System. Address by the Mtntster for Works
The ceremony of turning the first sod of a tramway, which the Railway Commissioners anticipate will pay from the start, wns performed opposite the Erskineville Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Railways. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—A certain section of the public, while agreeing that the Government has done well in the appointment of two of our tried railway officials to the positions of Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Railways. Shortage of Wheat Trucks
Despite that about four trains ol empty trucks are sent daily to the wheatgrowlng districts, the Railway Department is unable te cope with the extraordinary rush of bust…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parramatta District. Guildford Railway Crossing
At a well-attended meeting of the residents of Guildford on Tuesday evening, to consider what steps should be taken to bring'under the notice of the Railway Commissioners the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling Carnival. Postponed Until Monday Night
The cycling sports which the New South Wales Cyclists' Association had arranged to hold at the Sydncy Sports Ground last evening were postponed at the last moment owing to the inelemency of the…
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