Australasian Motor Boat Championship
Next Saturday will again witness the decision of an Australasian motor boat championship in Sydney Harbor, when the Motor Yacht Club of N.S. Wales, and the Motor Boat Club of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
12,789 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250
The Best Tour for the Motorist Half Day, Whole Day, and Several Days' Trips. Where to Go and What to See
Every motorist makes it his ambition when touring to return to his starting point by a different route. This is the secret of successful motor touring."…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Motor Bandits in Chicago. Policeman Brutally Murdered. Tray of Diamonds Taken. Chicago, Saturday Morning
Four bandits in a motor-car wrecked a jeweller's window here to-day, and escaped with a tray of valuable diamonds. The police used their revolvers, but failed to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Conciliator-in-chief." Satisfactory Experiment by Railway Company. London, Friday Night
The London North-Western Railway Company has expressed itself satisfied with the results of a prolonged experiment of an officer appointed as "grievance hearer" to investigate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Railway Failure
The budgets of the Western State Railway (France) provide the strongest possible argument against commercial Socialism or State trading, says an English. exchange. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Curious Railway Rates
In the "Manual of Statistics of the Federated Malay States," the following table of railway rates is given: Elephants, lOd per mile each; alligators, bears, hyenas, panthers, tigers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Taree-newcastle Railway Test. Newcastle, Saturday Morning
A party of railway officials came through from Sydney this morning bound for Taree. where, to-morrow, they will commence testing the bridges on the Taree-Newcastle section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →£6,Ooo,000 Tram Deal
Particulars were made public last month of the arrangement to bo made between the London United Tramways and the Metropolitan Electric Tramways. A new company is to be formed to…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Motor Cars for All. the Near Advent of the £100 Type. Every Man His Own Runabout
"After the passage of a year what is the prospect of motor cars becoming cheaper." This question was put to the manager of one of the biggest Sydney firms by a "Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Knock Down by Tram
Alexander Duffy a resident of Robert-street, Newtown, was alighting from a tram in King-street yesterday, when he was knocked down by a motor-car. At the Royal Prince Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motors and Motoring Automobile Club of Australia
The Automobile Club of Australia does not mean to let the competition side of motoring fall out of sight this year. The Roads and Tours committee during the past few days issued…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →International Federation of Motor Cyclists Reformed
A meeting was held during the Olympia Show in London to revive the International Federation of Motor Cyclists. The Hon. Arthur Stanley presided over the delegates, who represented…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Tram Travelling. As It Is in America. Woodman's Words of Wisdom. Says Penny Sections Should Be Abolished, And Suburbanites Be Carried Cheaper
[?] Joe Woodman, manager for de Little [?]ering coon, Sam Langford, is a man [?]esn't travel with his eyes closed, in [?] or otherwise. Unlike many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Bandits. Diamond Stealers in Chicago. Chicago
Great excitement has been caused in this city by the appearance of motor bandits. It appears that four automobile bandits smashed the window of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Administration. Loco Defects and Dangers Beneficial Effect of the " Sun" Exposures. a Fresh Trouble Developed. Engines That Won't Round Curves. "T.f." Locos. Are Unsatisfactory
Recent articles in the "Sun" on the subject of railway locomotives have had the effect of making the Chief Commissioner, and his departmental chiefs take action which will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greek Railways. Nationalisation Suggested. London
The Government of Greece is considering the policy of purchasing local railway lines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fell Off the Footboard. Tram Accident in the City
A compositor,. William Greenaway, 42, who lives at Landers-street, Redfern, is lying in the Sydney Hospital severely injured about the head and face…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robbery by Motor. Chicago Thieves' Ruse. Policeman Killed. CHICAGO
Automobile bandits have brought off another coup here. Four men drove up yesterday to a leading jeweller's establishment, broke the window…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train and Motor Car. London, Jan. 5
While being used in conveying gold to pay wages, a motor car at Purfleet stuck on a railway crossing, with the result that a train smashed into it…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bumped the Bridge. Biding on Top of Railway Carriage. West Maitland
A starting story was told at the police court to-day by a young [?]mertican seaman named Joseph Wade, who was discovered on Saturday night on top of our of the carriages of the…
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