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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
10,372 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 250
The Lord Mayor (Ald. Taylor), in a minute which was read before the works committee of the City Council yesterday, drew attention to the fact that the Tramways Department…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COFF'S HARBOR, Tuesday.--Plans have arrived for submission to the Railway League concerning a shorter route to the Dorrigo than via Glenreagh. A sufficiently strong case will…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The seventh annual exhibition, trials, and races of motor boats, organised by the International Sporting Club of Monaco, under the auspices of the International Automobile Association, will commence at Monaco on…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Last month at the Brooklanda track (Eng.), O. C. Godfrey accomplished a remarkable record trial for a motor bicycle of only 3½ h.p. Mounted on his .Rex he covered 50 miles in 49min. 59sec., and in one hour rode 59 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Motor Cycle Club of New South Wales baa an all day run listed for to-day to National Park. Members will meet at Broadway, Glebe, at 9.30. Members who intend taking part in the club's annual carnival at the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lord Kitchener having now practically completed his tour of the Commonwealth, at the State banquet tendered to him in West Australia was able to put his finger on one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The monthly meeting of the Motor Boat Club of New South Wales is to be held at the rooms on Tuesday night next, when some important matters arc down for discussion, including the election of a commodore for the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Timothy Kerins, 19, laborer, and Cecil Walker, 22, laborer, was charged at the Glebe Court with being drunk on a tram in Parramatta-road, Annandale, on January 22, and also with using indecent and insulting…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fairbanks I. (Mr. A. H. Davies' boat) has demonstrated that she is capable of 27 miles per hour; Mr. George Whatmore is building his 100 h.p. racer to wrest the championship from her; and Mr. W. Chas. Moseley's beat…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The general secretary of the Tramway Employees' Union (Mr. A. C. Warton) recently wrote to the Chief Commissioner for Railways detailing a number of grievances which affect…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At the last meeting of the Tramway Employees' Union executive, it was resolved to write to the Superintendent, and ask that in the case of Waverley extra broken shift runs…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At the Parramatta Court on Monday, before Mr. B. L Maitland, S.M. a youth, Reginald Chamberlain, was charged with stealing cash to the amount of £3[?] from the blocker of a tram car at Bauikham-hills. It…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"With the Lanchester, the Daimler, the Dennis, the Wolseley, and others pinning more faith to the worm drive to rear axle, the bevel gear drive seems to be threatened with extinction in time," states a writer in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On August 1.8, 1909, between two and four in the afternoon, the railway station called the "Gave d'Austerlitz," in Paris, presented a curious sight. To the uninitiated, says…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A special inquiry was commenced of Spencer-street railway offices to-day relative to a sensational incident which happened on Tuesday between Lancefield…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. A. C. Wharton, general secretary of the Tramway Fmployees' Union, has received answers to a statement sent the Chief Railway Commissioner, in regard to grievances which are claimed to affect 800 or 900…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →It is a very trying lot to be a Baptist child of the real old-fashioned sort, writes A. V. Mortimer in "Ave Maria." My family was both "hard-shelled" and "free"…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Once upon a time a man who was eating in the enormous dining-room of the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga looked up from his plate and around the vast place and said:…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the opening of the new Christian Brothers' School at Burwood on Sunday the Cardinal spoke of the factors that make for the success of a school—the efficiency of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Constable Sherriman told an unusual story at the Central Police Court this morning in a case in which William Scovern, 72, blacksmith, was charged "with behaving in an improper…
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