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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The motor-driven Dreadnought, which engineers only a few months ago ridiculed, will shortly be a reality. This startling announcement is made in the current issue of the…
Continued on Trove, page 51 →At the annual international conference of automobile clubs, which met in Paris recently, the sporting programme for 1911 was discussed and fixed. Major Lindsay Lloyd, who was the…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →The popular idea about a successful era of irrigation confines the ramifications to fruit and crops of that description. But there is much more scope for effective work. Hitherto…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A very quiet chap is Sid, You'll never hear him rouse: He's human as you'll meet around. He wouldn't hurt a mouse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A corporation styled the Dominion Development Company is endeavoring to obtain a charter to build a great transcontinental railway from Hudson's Bay to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Fred. Surtecs, of the M'Combe Steam Vulcanising Works, Castlereagh-st., yesterday explained the motor-ear accident mentioned in Friday's "Sun." He said that he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The finding of the mangled body or James Mack on the railway track, near the Cloveland-street tunnel, on the night of January 14 last, was inquired into by the City…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A shocking accident occurred near the Esk bank coal stage at about 3 o'clock this morning, when a man named Frank Bogg, about 58 years of age, received frightful injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The City Coroner devoted considerable time to-day concluding his investigation into the circumstances of the cab and tram collision which occurred in Pitt-street, near the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Entries are coming in freely for the motor cycle track race which is to be held at the B. and B. Club's carnival at the Sports Ground on February 6. Messrs. E. Yee, L. W. Firth, and K. J. M Gee the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Entries are due on Saturday with Mr. E. C. Griffith, the hon. secretary of the Motor Boat Club, for the general handicap for the Stelling Shield, which is to be run on the Rose Bay course on Saturday, February 4. The…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Motor Bout Club of New South Wales has decided upon a novel programme for a gymkhana, which it intends to held in Rose Bay, opposite the club house, on Saturday, April 1. There will be an event in which…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Motor boat racing is attractive when high speed boats are engaged capable of speeds from 20 miles an hour upwards, but it is monotonous watching the slower boats racing over a distance, and the long races are not…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The next hill climb of the Motor Cycle Club of New South Wales will be held on February 11 or 18, but the hill to be used has not yet been decided upon. The club membership is increasing at every committee…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The recent motor cycle reliability contest between Melbourne and Sydney has evidently set loose the record-breaking fever amongst motor cyclists, for already several are talking oi making an attempt to establish a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Minister for works has received a report that there has been a heavy landslide on the third section of the North Coast railway, between Gloucester and Taree. The contractors…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. W. B. Wilkinson, of Bradley's Head-road, writes:--I notice that the Minister for Works is considering the question of securing electric omnibuses which run without rails, and with a give-and-take spiral cord which traverses an overhead electric wire. It may be of interest to your readers to see the accompanying picture of the car at work. I understand they are used extensively in France. Some years ago I tried to persude the Railway Commissioners to adopt them for the traffic between Athol Gardens and tile Mosman post-office--as a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,--Will you permit me, through the columns of your paper, to direct the attention of the Chief Commissioner for Railways to the very serious mistakes that have been made in the running of the Spit to Manly tram?…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following members have entered for the Kookaburra Club's Reliability Trial to [?]rrajong and back, starting and finishing at Pe[?] corner:--—S. Hickson and R. Readford, on 3½ Speedwell; A. L. Maddock, N…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Royal Commission on Railway Decentralisation sat yesterday afternoon, and took the supplementary evidence of Sir Thomas Ewing concerning the choice of the two routes…
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