Motoring. Picton-mittagong Road
Mr. Henry Rainbow, assistant-engineer to the Nattai Shire Council, writes that he noticed in this column of last Saturday's issue a reference to the deterioration of that part of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1917
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Fruit Trees on Public Roads
The Department of Local Government suggests in a circular letter to the vari-ous councils that they take into consideration the desirableness of adopting a plan…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bridge of Firemen. Daring Rescue of Four Girls From a Burning House
FOUR of the maids at the residence of Mrs. Charles T. Barney, the widow of the American financier whose death in the panic of 1907 was the occasion of a certain amount…
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"Gunner" writes:—I was glad to see you having a hit at those owners of motor cars who aften pass some of the boys, now without a leg, because they thought it their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Exposures. Holman's Gime with the People
As showing Mr. Haynes, Member for Willoughby, was right in his ceaseless attacks on Holeman in Parliament over the ugly motor…
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A steel ball one inch in diameter will support many thousand times its own weight, while a steel ball one milo in diameter will fall apart of its own…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Live Motor Page. Effect of Heat. Expansion of Gasses
If an empty bottle is corked and a hole bored through the cork, when it is held in a pan of warm water, bubbles of air are seen to come freely from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Cycling Doping of Petrol; Interesting Tests by H. G. A. Harding
A few weeks, age, I promised to publish an article on a subject which interest all motoring enthusiasts, viz., the intensifying or doping of petrol. It is published to-day, and is by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Motoring Notes
The Newcastle Automobile Association is holding another hill-climbing, contest at Bull's Gardens on March 31, this time in two sections, for cars over and under a ton. It promises to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Knocked Down by Tram. Man Severely Injured in the City
A man whose name has not [?] in Elizabeth-street [?] Campbell-street, this afternoon…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →After Tram Accident, Curious Case of Alleged False Pretences
William Arthur Hayes, 57, was charged at the Central Police Court, with having during November last Sydney, tal[?] pretended to Margaret Johnson Hudson that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →East-west Railway. Cost to Date, £6,096,524
Replying in the House of Representative yesterday to Mr. R. W. Foster (Lib. Min., S. A.), Mr. Groom, on behalf of the Minister for Works and Railways, stated that the amount expended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Ideas in Science and Invention. Electric Motors For Invalids
IT is sometimes more harmful than beneflcial for an invalid to ride in the average self-operated wheel chair, us half the energy he possesses is used in operating it and trying…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor Ambulance for St. George
Rockdale, on Saturday last, had a gala day in aid of the above fund, and a grand procession, headed by the St. George District Band, left Kogarah…
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William Lambert, aged 75, of Bayview, Pittwater, who was knocked down by a motor car in Oxford-street, Darlinghurst, on the night of February 27, died in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motoring Big Cycle Carnival Evolution of the Car Mortlake Carnival
Preparations are now in hand in connection with the forthcoming Mortlake Motor Cycle Patriotic Carnival. The Victorian Motor Cycle Club, under whose auspices the…
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The Lidcombe Council is tired of approaching the Railway Commissioners respecting the miserable facilities provided at tho local railway station for handling…
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The Chief Commissioner's Officer advised the Blacktown Council this week, in reply to its request for the provision of unitary conveniences at Quakers Hill…
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About 30 representatives of various parts and interests of the district were present in the Baulkman Hills School of Arts on Thursday to lay before Messrs…
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