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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
10,357 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250
Until comparatively recently, when one or two Sydney firms have bestirred themselves In the matter, the Australian motor cyclist has been compelled to adopt the fashions…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AUTOMOBILE engineers, it would seem, have of late been singularly unsuccessful in introducing into the motor world something entirely new in the way of…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →His smile is like a sunbeam quite, And parted nicely is his hair, Oh! with the ladies he's all right. Few with him indeed can compare;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Water Board paid for the extension of the railway, from Regent's Park to Pott's Hill, and the board wants the line to be made available for passenger traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Cann states that the 80 locomotives ordered from England would, so far at least as some of them are concerned, be put together at Clyde and others at Eveleigh, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Town Clerk (Mr. Nesbitt) intimated to the works committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon that the control of the pedestrian traffic on the footways of the city…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The marine motoring supremacy of the Commonwealth, held by Sydney-owned motor craft ever since the inception of the sport, was wrested from this State when Nautilus H., the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Members of the Motor Yacht Club will Journey to the Lane Cove River on Saturday. The annual carnival is being held there, and there will be motor boat racing in the afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The report submitted to the members of the Motor Cycle Club of New South Wales at the annual meeting disclosed the fact that during the past year all previous records had been…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Werris Creek branch of the New South Wales Traffic Employees' Association has passed a motion expressing disapproval of the action taken by the South African…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →After providing £8228 for depreciation, the Silverton Tramway Company, Limited, made a net profit of £135,221 for the year 1913, which compares with the depreciation of £7016 and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A meeting of business men, graziers, and farmers was held at Kemps ey on January 30. Tho Mayor (Alderman Hardiman) presided. The object was to urge the immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 58 →The invention to accomplish mechanical ignition for internal combustion engines, which was shown at a special demonstration at the Engineering School of the Sydney University…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →The weather was favorable on January 31 for the race for the motor boat championship of Australasia which was held at Rose Bay, the course being from the club house of the Motor…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →NEW YORK, Tuesday Evening.-- Several entries have been announced for the round the world acroplane race, which it is proposed to hold in connection with the Panama Exhibition…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →'Mr. Hawker, who is shortly to give an exhibition of aerial aerobatics In Sydney, was recently invited-to afternoon tea at. Federal Government House. He. replied at once, "Thank you! I'll come in my aeroplane." And he did. Lord and Lady Denman were deeply Interested in his manoeuvres, and, at their request, Mr. Hawker explained tho mechanism of the Sopwith machine to them. AVIATOR H. G. HAWKER CHATTING WITH LORD AND LADY DENMAN…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Mountain train service on Saturday was disorganised to such an extent that tho 1 p.m. train from Sydney took four hours to reach Blackheath, a distance of 72 miles,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →It will be remembered that one of the chief planks in Mr. Wade's ejection platform was the removal of the Bridge-street fig trees at an alleged cost of £90. In this…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →There was a mild excitement on Lawson platform when it was learnt that the guard of the train leaving Sydney a few minutes before 8 on Wednesday morning had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →If the Good Roads Association could do no more than, institute and maintain a campaign of publicity in favor of the objects it pursues, it would be doing good work. In respect of roads. this State is in a semi-barbarous condition. Motor traffic is not the only traffic that suffers though necessarily it gets the worst experiences; all kinds…
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