No Motoring for Pleasure
The British petrol committee is imposing further restrictions on the private consumption of petrol. After March, it is believed, there will be…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1917
6,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 250
Berrigan Taps Railway Commissioners
The Berrigan Farmers and Settlers' Association has decided to ask the Minister for Railways, Mr. Ball, to redeem his promise of a through train…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →District Court. (Before Judge Docker.) Motor Car Repairs. Joseph v Head
Francis Henry Joseph, of Roslyn, 167 Belmore-road, Coogee, picture show proprietor, sued Reuben F. Head, of 2 Marriott-street, Redfern, motor engineer, in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Servants' Pay
A number of inquiries have been received by the "Herald" from relations of men in the Railway Department, asking whether the difference between military and departmental…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Anxious Times Ahead. Remarks by Chief Railway Commissioner
In the course of his remarks to a deputation from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Federated Blacksmiths' Union, which waited upon him yesterday with reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motoring Fatality. Adelaide
M. R. Rowe, the 4-year old son of Mr. R. E. Rowe, of Parkside, was killed in a motor accident at Waverley Ridge, near Mount Lofty, on Sunday afternoon. The car…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Car Capsizes. Newcastle
A motor car, owned by Mr. Henry Stephens, of Warath, capsized at Swansea on Sundny as a result of a valve blowing out. All the persons in the car were thrown on to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Abdul's Prisoners Forced Labor on Railways London, Monday Night
Reuter's correspondent at Cairo states that it is understood that the Turks have pulled up two railways, in accordance with German orders, and are constructing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Marriage Certificates. Demand Upon Railway Navvies
Members of the Railway Workers and General Laborers' Union are expressing dissatisfaction in consequence of an order stated by Mr. T. D. Gearing, organiser of the union, to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germany's New Aeroplane
According to a message from Paris a French general states that the Germans are using new powerful aeroplanes of great speed, which frequently enables them to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Mails by Aeroplane
The Postmaster-General (Mr. Webster) has had the problem of mail conveyance by aero plane under consideration for some time, and has made a searching inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Bridge Players Help
The hon. secretary of the Citizens' War Chest Fund, Sydney, advises having received a letter from an enthusiastic bridge player, suggesting, that bridge players might now and again fix a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →New Motor Cars. £31,800 Worth This Week
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Smash in Tasmania
A runaway van crated into the [?] Lyell Company's morning train at L[?] Railway Stations, near Queenstown, Tasmania, on Tuesday The broke van was [?] and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Motor World Callander Declared Winner of Lithgow's 100 Miles
The Lithgow Motor Cycle Club appears to have peculiar ideas as to how the sport should be conducted. It has already been recorded in this column that Callander, a local rider, was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor Cycling Notes
After a long spell from competitions, the Canberra Club will hold a quarter-mile acceleration test on Saturday afternoon. Post entries will be accepted, and, the La Perouse…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Rifle Public Service Shields: Tramway Leading in "A" Grade
Chief, interest at the Randwick Range last Saturday centred in the fourth round of the Public Service Shields' competitions, the A grade being at 700 yards, and the B at 200…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →District Court. (Before Judge Docker.) Motor and Bicycle. Downes v Combes
Mr. Cowan, instructed by Messrs. D. M. Myers and Hill, appeared for Arthur Rawson Downes (who sued by Edwin William Downes, of Marrickville-road, Marrickville,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carriage of Mails. Payments to the Railway. Melbourne
On Monday the Interstate Commission will commence sittings as an Arbitration Court to determine what amount shall be paid by the Postmaster-General's Department to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Railwaymen: Appeal for Reinforcements
WRITING to his father (Mr. W. G. Prichard, of Drummoyne), Corp. Arvan Prichard, of the—Machine Gun Section, says:—I am sending you another interesting souvenir. It is a speedometer dial…
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