Struck by Rock Accident at Bridge Works
A rock fell from a ledge at the Sydney Harbour Bridge works at Dawes Point yesterday, and struck Alexander Gray, 22, of Earlwood, on…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1926
15,962 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250
Don'ts Fou Motorists
Don't throw lighted matches in your petrol tank, unless you want a sudden rise. Don't lubricate your springs with…
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In the right foreground is the new school, immediately opposite and adjoining the New Railway Workshops Estate, Bankstown. The weatherboard wall at this extremity of the building is only a temporary provision, as it is intended to treble the size of the…
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William Hudson, aged 22 years, of Ryde-road, Hunter's Hill, was returning in a motor car from a funeral at the Field of Mars Cemetery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motoring (Continued Frm Page 20.) Mrs Bell on Her Way Again
A trip around Australia is no small effort. It is months since Mrs. Marian Bell left Perth on a journey openly proclaimed to be foolhardy and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Helping Motorists Reforms by the N.R.M.A.
The secretary of the N.R.M.A. advises that, arising out of the last Federal conference, definite steps have been, taken to secure the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Mechanics' Exam on February 15
The next examination to be held by the N.R.M.A. will take place on Feb. 15, at 7 p.m., in the Sydney Technical College. Application form and copy…
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The address of the President of the Motor Traders' Association told of a year of progress. In the two years in which Mr. Willsford occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motoring Why Engines Must Be Run in Damage Which May Be Done If a New Car Is Overdriven
No one relishes the prospect of driving a new car with caution as regards speed and hill-climbing during the first few hundred miles of its…
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The monster Motor Show, to open at the Royal Agricultural Show Ground next Friday, will be well worth visiting. In all there will be 140 exhibitors, while…
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The man in the street little realizes the huge quantity of crude rubber that is to-day being utilized in the manufacture of…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—At the Outer Harbour this atternoon, the hydroplane race for the Bennett Gold Cup was contested. Only two the five starters…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Exciting Race Motors at Maroubra How the Bikes Came Home
With 48sec. start, W. F. Furlong, in an Oakland car, beat H. R. Clarke, in his Velox Vauxhall, at Maroubra Speedway yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Smythe Smytten Wife Who Preferred Railwayman
ANOTHER member of the great clan Smith struck squalls on matrimony's stormy sea, according to a story told in the…
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DURING the holiday period many visitors have called at the Royal Automobile Club House from other States. In nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Challenge Motoring Furlong and Dick Clarke
W. F. FURLONG, [?]. a six cylinder [?]dard Oakland car, yesterday defeated Boyd Edkins' 30-98 Velox Vauxhall, driven by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Are They Deathways? Dangers of Motor "Speeding"
A TRAGEDY in any branch of sport is at all times likely to raise the query whether that particular sport is safe. Thus motor speed racing is at present exercising the public mind. Recent fatalities have given birth to…
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It was expected that when the "keep to the left" rule was introduced by the Police Department, that a better system would result…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →From a Button to an Engine Keeping the Railways On the Move Australia's Biggest Storehouse
Out past the Redfern Railway Station, alongside the Erskineville tramline, is the biggest store in the Southern Hemisphere. The goods it handles cost millions of pounds a year, and it supplies anything from a button for a tramguard's coat, or a packet…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Motor Cycle Smash Rider's Skull Fractured West Maitland
Horace Clements, aged 20, an electrician, is in Maitland Hospital in a critical condition. He was riding a motor cycle in the Maitland Park…
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