The Motor Petrol and the Carburettor
The carburettor performs the function of mixing petrol with air, forming a gas which is drawn through the induct ion pipe; into the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1924
15,144 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250
Motor Cycling Gossip of the Clubs
Entries close at 9 p.m. to-day for the Western Suburbs Motor Cycle Club's quarter-mile flying hill climb, to be held to-morrow afternoon. The fee is 2/6,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Queensland Railways Western Extensions Linking the Systems
Some time ago a deputation representing pastoralists of Western Queensland and the North-west of New South Wales, asked the Queensland Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motors and Motoring the Motor Age a New Shock Absorber a Useful Device
An interesting shock absorber, which works on the friction disc principal, has recently been designed by an Englishman named G.J. Duckett. The novel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jewels or Railways? Persia's Choice Shah's Diamonds to be Sold
Persia is the latest of Asiatic countries to join in the race of modern civilisation, and believing that railways should form an important part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Smash. Express and Trolly Collide
The express for Sydney, which left Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon, ran into a trolly conveying railway linesmen half a mile on the Melbourne vide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclist Killed Collision with. Tram NEWCASTLE
William George Sharp, who was injured when his motor cycle collided with a tram at the high-level bridge Lalinaton, last night, died in HERE'S LUCK TO THE SPORT, AND MAY THE BEST LAD WIN TOMORROW!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Traders
The secretary of the M.T.A accompanied Mr. E. A. Sternbeck over the Wiseman's Ferry run last week end, in a Bulck car. He returns tremendously…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Not for Australia Ford Motor Factory NEWCASTLE
Henry Ford doesn't own a foot of land In Australia, and As far as can be ascertained at present there is little hope of a Ford motor car factory…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Motor in the Country Handling the Accelerator Efficiently "Flat" and "High" Spots in the Carburettor
WHEN first you learned to drive, you regarded the accelerator as something that had an opposite effect to the foot brake…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Trains
The motor train No. 3, during a most successful run to Bombala recently, developed a speed of 45 miles an hour, and her petrol consumption…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Motor Boat Racing. Anniversary Regatta Handicaps
The following handicaps have been issued for the motor boat races at the Anniversary Regatta:— Under 10 miles per hour:—Dr. S. Hughes's Min-U-Min (15m); A. M. Merrington's Gumaut (15m); McGregor…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Fares
In a letter to the Editor. Mrs. F. J. Boorman complains of the charge on the train service between Hazelbrook and Lawson of 8d return for a journey of one mile. The fare,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →How Railway Workers Are Treated by the Railway Commissioners. Migan,22/12/'23.The Editor, "Workers' Weekly,"—
Dear Comrade.—I should be glad if you would secure for me publicity of a few remarks I have to make regarding the barbarous treatment meted out to railway workers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sudden Illness Railway Commissioner
The Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Fraser). who is taking a month's leave fro mills duties, suffered a sudden attack of illness to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Late for Work Half a Million Londoners Railway Signals Fail London, Thursday Night
A quarter of a million of London's workers were late for business today owing to the failure of the electric signalling apparatus on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burrowing Under Sydney's Feet Work on City Railway Ones on
FROM TUNNEL-MOUTH.--Out of the darkness of this familiar sandstone tube at Circular Quay trains will someday go rushing into the air, high over the ferry wharves. COOKING THE CONCRETE.--This giant concrete-mixer is busily churning out long grey puddings on the Campbell-street section of the railway. Every part of the work has one of these mixers attached…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Cycle Accident
Frederick Robinson, aged 44, of Rochford-street, Erskineville, was riding a motor cycle in Parramatta- road, Camperdown, to-day, when a dealer's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Lorry Capsizes Lucky Escapes
A runaway motor lorry, gathering speed as it ran downhill near the Watson's Bay Police Station to-day. swerved and capsized, pinning a man…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →St. George Motor Boat Club
After the strenuous Christmas racing a halt was called last Saturday, but we are off again to-morrow when the Trussed Concrete Steel Company…
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