Cycling and Motoring. Sydney Bicycle Club
The Sydney Bicycle Club's carnival, which was postponed on Saturday owing to the rain, will be held on the Agricultural Ground on the 29th inst…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
10,327 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250
English and Continental Motoring Notes
The Automobile Club of America will this year control the Ormond-Daytona motor races, which are fixed for the week beginning March 2. Arrangements have been made to provide a straightaway course of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Railway Wanted. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir.—This letter is from a struggling woman in the far bush, asking co-operation in the effort we are making for the construction of a light line of railway from Wagga to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Negligent Motor Driving
On Octobor 17 last a boy named Oscar Gower Tucker was knocked down and killed by a motor car in Fitzroy. The car was owned by Mr. John M'Neil, of Brisbane. A writ has…
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A two officials of the Witwatersrand mine, Julian-nesburg, were conveying a quantity of gold to that town on December 18 they were held up by two men in a motor-car, who suddenly drew up alongside the…
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A young woman named Nellie Townsend, living at 84 Cameron-street, Paddington, sustained severe facial abrasions through attempting to alight from a moving tram in…
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Frequent inquiries are made at the Government Tourist Bureau as to whether regular motor-car trips are organised round Sydney and environs, but no enterprising firm has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling. Will There Be a March Carnival?
Although the track season for 100S is drawing to a close, it is by no means certain that the curtain will be drawn without a carnival being held. 23 local cyclists anticipated. Some time ago the syndicate controlling…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Boating. Monaco Motor-boat Races
The International Sporting Club of Monaco has decided to admit only two types of motor boats in the racing class, with inquiries of 155 bore, and unrestricted. In the latter class will probably be entered a British boat with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Killed by Train
PERTH (W.A.), Friday.-- William Scbarnhorst (55) was knocked down by a train at Cottesloe Beach level crossing, and succumbed this afternoon. He was a native of Hanover, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Have You Road—? "The Shuttle"
This skilful story, by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, is one of the best she has given us since the days of "Little Lord Fauntleroy." It deals with the English nobility and the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Was Not Drowned a Pyrmont Bridge Mystery the Case of Joseph Williams
Detective John Q'Suillvan, attached to No. 1 Police Station, had a strange story to tell at the Central Police Court yesterday. A man named Joseph Williams was before the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Chose Death to Save His Sweetheart. Mexican Enginedriver and Burning Powder Train
THE question is often asked "Is the ace of chivalry dead?" Away down in the little mining town of Nacozari, between the United States and Mexico, they answer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girls Essay on a Motor Car
A schoolgirl was required to write an essay of 250 words about a motor-car. She submitted the following: "My uncle bought a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor Cyclists Smash. Charges Into a Horse
James M'Neil. a resident of Glebe Point, was riding his motor cycle in Centennial Park this afternoon. In the main road a horse came suddenly out from behind a plantation…
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In Birmingham, the tramway.water, electricity, and fire departments have adopted motorcars, and the results are reported to be satisfactory. Every car used is of British…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stanwell Park Railway Station
iraveller" writes: As one who witnessed the scene at the Stairwell Park Railway Station on Anniversary Day described by "Warning" In Wednesday's issue. I feel it a duty to write in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lady Motor Engineer
A young lady who is attending. the Paris Polytechnic is studying motor-car construction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Electric Railway. Between Milan and Genoa
The newly-projected electric railroad which is to be built between Milan and Genoa will be about 80 miles in length. According to the plans, there will be 19 tunnels, one of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Club to Cost £100,000
"The new club premises of the Royal Automobile Club on the old War Office site in Pall Mall (London), will be completed within two years," said Mr. Orde, secretary of the club,…
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