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Railways, roads & transport, 1925

13,896 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

Motor 'Bus Scramble

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 1

In America, anyone attempting to force himself into a 'bus where no seat was vacant for him to occupy would at once be…

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Motor Tax

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 10

The following has been prepared by the Touring Department of the Royal Automobile Club for the information of members and other…

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Motoring New Members Of the N.R.M.A.

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 9

During the week ended Jan. 7 the National Roads and Motorists' Association, 30 Grosvenor-street, Sydney (B5210), which wound up a most…

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Tram Derailed

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 3

Yesterday morning, near the Suspension Bridge at North Sydney, a tramcar collided with a 'bus. The 'bus and tram were travelling…

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Sir Arthur Cocks British Motor Agents Say He Boasted of His American Cars

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 3

Probably no section of the commercial community will be more surprised by the announcement that Sir Arthur Cocks has been appointed…

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Sunday Times World News Correspondence Cable News England Turned Down Railway Reserve Bold British Scheme Recruiting Unionists Sergeant Refused a Hearing London

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 4

Mr. Cramp, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, has circularised all branches of the union in Great Britain in regard to…

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Did Gilgandra Get The Right Oil? Pioneer Speculators in Cheap Motor Fuel Conspiracy Hearing Adjourned

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 9

The "inside story" of a motor device claimed to save from 50 to 75 per cent. of the cost of running, by four ambitious company promoters, can be expected when the Police Court proceedings commence in a conspiracy charge which was for the second occasion…

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Boom in Motor Cycles Number of Thefts Reported in Western Suburbs Three Young Men Charged

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 12

Whether it was the pictures or exuberance of spirits some you the youths recently sensational splash into the…

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News in Brief Trams to Balmoral

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 4

From to-day a through service of trams will be run from Chatswood and Lane Cove to Balmoral. The trams will leave every 30 minutes…

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Collision. Tram and 'Bus. At Suspension Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 9

A large number of people looked over the railing of the Suspension Bridge early on Saturday morning, and regarded as fortunate their escape, figurately, by a…

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Suit of Pyjamas And an Aeroplane

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 7

THE POLICE are confident that the mysterious stranger who stayed at the Palace Hotel, Mortlake, under the name of O. Young,…

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Exhibition Touring Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 10

The Australian-made Preference League, which is organising the Exhibition Touring Train, states that the space on the train is selling rapidly at the moderate rates that…

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De Garis! Aeroplane Flight? Arrival in Sydney

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 7

Delective-Sergcant Kennedy and Detective Watkins, who first received the information that a man believed to be de Garis was at the Mortlake Hotel…

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Exhibition Touring Train Filling Up

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 11

The big exhibition train to tour the country, under the auspices of the "Australian - made" preference League, will leave Sydney soon after Easter. It will…

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Bridge Over the Lachlan. Fordes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 10

After many months the Jemalong Shir[?] Council has decided to contribute to £3750 towards the cost ot erecting a bridge over the Lachlan River at Collett's Crossing, near…

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Talking Thousands Riveting the Harbor Bridge

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 3

Sydney is being given already a foretaste of the Immensity of preparation Incidental to the erection of a first-class bridge. Much of the…

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Fatal Motor Smash Car Overturns on Mountain Road Driver Instantly Killed Lithgow

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 7

Thomas O'Rourke, jun., of Mount Victoria, was killed instantly when a motor-car he was driving overturned on the Jenolan Caves Road…

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Only a Bridge Needs of Yanco Settlers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 2

LEETON.--For some years there has been a continuous agitation for a bridge across the Murrumbldgee River, in the neighborhood of the high school…

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Dr. Bradfield. Returns to Sydney. Bridge Plans Praised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 9

Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, Chief Engineer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the City Railway, accompanied by his secretary (Miss…

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Both Fort and Aerodrome Britain's New Battleships 16In. Guns and No Funnels London, January 10

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 7

The "Daily Express" states that the design of the battleships Nelson and Rodney, now building in Britain under the Washington Treaty, will be so…

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