Our Consulting Column. Information for Motorists. Correspondence Invited
Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 8
It is our desire is make this column of real use to motorists. Every car owner or driver his occasional troubles with his car, and is puzzled to diagnose…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motoring the Owner-driver Small Car of the Future
The Sun · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 2
The light car movement, though not very active at the moment, will in the near future help greatly in creating a bigger demand for cars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring. Registration Figures
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 4
The registrations of new motor-propelled vehicles at the Traffic Department for the last four weeks of the past year have been respectively: Motor cars, 79; taxi 1, motor cycles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mosman Tram Services
Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 5
On Thursday a deputation from the Mosman Council comprising Aldermen Smith (Mayo[?]), Walters and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Motor Traffic
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 6
The disdain with which the travelling public is treating that awful main thoroughfare to and from Sydney, the Parramatta road, is being more and more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Leaps Over Fence
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 6
Mr. John Robertson, a blacksmith, of Tallangatta, in tho Albury district, was killed in a motor buggy accident last week. About 12 mouths ago he purchased…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motoring Inter-state Touring New and Good Route to Brisbane
Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 11
Mr. B. G. Ezzy writes:—"As a Queensland reader of your motoring column I Would like to add my quota to your Interstate tours in the Christmas issue. Regarding the Route…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →British Successes. Railways and Factories Bombed LONDON, Saturday Morning
Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 1
Sir Douglas Haig reports: Great aerial activity was shown by both sides on Thursday. Two hundred bombs were dropped on two hostile aerodromes, a railway juncuon and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Car Overturns Seven People Injured Family Party's Mishap
Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 2
About 9.30 last night, Alfred McEwan, a butcher, living in Gordon-street, Petersham, was driving a Ford car along Broadway, Glebe, being then on his way home from a trip to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Centralisation a South Coast Demand Wollongong
Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 2
At a meeting of the Wollongong Citizens' Association, Mr. M. J. Wilson gave notice to move at next meeting that the Association protest against the continued centralisation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Refreshment Rooms Extension of Operations
Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 2
The Railway Refreshment Rooms is further extending its operations at the Central Railway Station. A shop has been opened in Pitt-street where tobaccos, cigars, and other articles are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meat Scarcity. Are Railways to Blame? Alleged Holiday Paralysis
Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 2
The fears expressed in certain quarters that there is danger of a meat famine in Sydney are not shared officially. It was stated yesterday that there has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Regulations a Bad Old System Judge's Sensible Remarks
Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 7
Mr. Justice Edwards, of New Zealand, recently made some very sensible remarks in regard to the enforcing of the motor regulations in the Dominion, and they will be read…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Railway Control U.S.A. and Canada VANCOUVER
The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 1
President Wilson yesterday called upon Congress to give him full and unrestricted powers to conduct the Federal operation of the country's railroads. Before a joint…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Car Overturns Whole Family Injured
The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1918 · page 2
A motor car completely overturned last night opposite the University Hotel, in Glebe Point-road. The occupants were thrown to the roadway and each of them was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Stolen and Found
Evening News · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 6
A apart bit of work was p[?]ermed by the Sydney police in connecting with the theft of a motor [?] yesterday afternoon. The [?] by Mr. G. E. Adams, was left standing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Car Accident
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 4
In swerving to avoid a collision in Parramatta-road, Glebe, near Glebe-road, on Saturday evening, a motor car driven by Alfred M'Ewan, of Gordon-street, Petersham,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Robbery. Smart Work by the Police
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 8
The prevalence of motor car robberies has been so great of late that it is now considered by car owners unsafe to leave their motors standing unattended. Special steps…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Perilous Moment. Motor Overturns on Mountain Slope. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 8
A most sensational motor accident occurred on the Black Spur at half-past 5 o'clock on Saturday evening, when the mail coach running between Healesville and Marysville…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Red Cross Motor Launches. Drivers Wanted for Mesopotamia. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 6
The British Red Cross Society has cabled to the Australian Red Cross to know if they can supply drivers for Red Cross motor launches in Mesopotamia. The salary…
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