Address of Motor Garage
"Subscriber" asks:—Could you give me an address of a good motor garage in Sydney where I could be taught to drive and manage a car? I am 17 years pf age, but small for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1918
4,879 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 244
News of the Day From the Four Quarters. Events of the Day Crimes and Accidents a Man Killed at a Railway Crossing
An elderly, man, who is believed to have been employed as a caretaker at a weekend camp at Cronulla, was run over and killed by a train at Rockdale on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land Settlement and Railway Development. New Land Policy The State and the Farmer State to Guarantee the Sharesmen
Speaking at Bathurst recently, the N.S.W. Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) made on important announcement regarding the government's policy in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missing Jewellery. Three Railway Porters Charged
Three railway porters, John Murray, John Schofield, and Roy Feltham have been charged at the Moss Vale (N.S.W.) police court, with the theft of Jewellery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Looking Ahead Motor Tractors on the Farm
Great efforts are being ramie by the English Government to increase the area under cultivation in Great Britain by about 3.000,000 acres this year, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Motor Hire Agreement
Jerome Weetman, of 140 Castlereagh-strect, Sydney, s[?]d George Bingley, of [?]7 Campbellstreet, Sydney, contractor, for £69, a[?]ed to be due by defendant to plaintiff for the hire, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Accidents Safety-First Rules "Dont's" for Both Sides Statement by Automobile Secretary
The recent remarks by a Coroner (Mr. Jamieson) have directed much public attention to motor-car accidents in Sydney. A great amount of correspondence has come to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Safe Robbery. Carlton's Night Officers Arrested
Henry Ferguson (26) was arrested the morning by Detectives Leary, Rankin, Robinson, and other police, in connection with the Carlton railway station safe robbery on Saturday last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By Aeroplane to the Moon
That an astronomer of the standing of Camille Flammarion should have openly stated, as he did the other day. his belief in the possibility of some day voyaging…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian Light Horse With Captured Aeroplane
Our Light Horse in the Palestine campaign have had the good luck on more than one occasion to capture German aeroplanes. Sometimes an airman, hard hit by British shells, has managed to get along for a bit, but-getting lower and lower in his flight until ground was reached. Then a Light Horse patrol has rushed to the spot and captured men and machine. This photograph, which is taken from the "Illustrated…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Ryde. the Main Roads
At the Ryde Council meeting on Friday a notification was received from the Local Government Department, stating that £300 had been allotted for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Aeroplane Sentry a Sketch of War
The aeroplane sentry sat on his solitary mound in the middle of the field in the hot sunshine. His business was to watch for hostile aeroplanes, and to warn the battery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russia Takes the Red Road
Russia is in the coil of the unimaginable. Every great revolution sets out to do what bus never been done, and, with greater or less speed, descends to the red paths of horror which that unhappy country now treads in lumbering agony. Writing from London in November, Mr. Murdoch said: ''The interior of Russia is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ton of Bombs. Dropped on Austrian Aerodrome. Italian Airmen's Good Work. London, Friday [?]
[?] of our airships dropped [?] bomber an in [?] venza with [?] results…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck by a Tram
William M[?] living at [?] from a tram at Bay[?] this [?] at 11.30 a.m. was struck by a car coming in the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Early Closing Railway
A correspondent writes to complain of the early closing of the Darling Harbour railway yard for the receipt of outward goods traffic. The hour for closing is 3 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Railway Fatality
A shocking accident occurred at Rockdale Railway Station on Monday morning, which resulted in Henry Thomas Nosworthy (56) a married man, living at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycling
If any of my motor cycle readers are tired of distance-eating performances on the horizontal plane, they can have a try at the vertical. This is a kind…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Long Cove Motor Boat Club
The third handicap, one of the most interacting held under the auspices of the above club, resulted in a win for Zena (R. Kensey), with Mona (J…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Motor Year Book
Automobile handbooks have been island in plenty by the Royal Automobile Club and other British motoring organisation, but hitherto our Australian clubs…
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