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Railways, roads & transport, 1926

15,962 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 250

Notable Exhibits of the Motor Show. Lubricating on Scientific Lines

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 21

A novel electric chart that will attract considerable. interest from all motorists is a feature of the exhibit by Vacuum Oil Co. On this chart is a list of all popular makes of cars, and when the car owner inserts an electric plug…

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Notable Exhibits at the Motor Show. The Famous A.J.S. in all Models

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 20

All motor cyclists and prospective motor cyclists will naturally gravitate to the exhibit of P. and R. Williams at the Motor Show. Here is a very comprehensive and attractive display of every model of this famous and popular…

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Comfort for the Motorist

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 20

Messrs. R. N. Bubb, Ltd., 4-6 Wentworth-avenue, always to the foreign the latest aids to motoring comfort, have an interesting item in the Lovejoy shock-absorber. By means of this excellent patent, violent spring…

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Fell From a Tram Woodworker Injured

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 2

Richard Gray, 30, a woodworker, of George-street, Leichhardt, fell from a tram in Henderson-road, Alexandria, inst night. He was taken to the South…

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Correspondence Sydney Trams a Disgrace to Australia What a Melbourne Man Thinks

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 3

For many years the Melbourne tramways have been a cause of much sarcasm and "innocent merriment" on the part of visitors, and especially those from…

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Younger Set's Near-artists' Ball Society Summer Madness at Tirranna Dance Petting Parties and Liquor in Motor Cars

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 1

THE most select social coterie in Australia did its best to make the Tirranna race ball in Goulburn, on Thursday night, another artists' ball. DRINKING was unrestricted, cars outside were constantly occupied by younger set "petting parties," mostly intoxicated, and from 1 a.m. until after dawn all restrictions…

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Open Season for the Motorist Traffic Department Again On The Hunt

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 1

ALWAYS considered a butt for sporting notions and quaint experiments, the motor traders and motorists of this State have now had another immense joke played upon them by the Traffic Department. THE joke can be seen by all of the outsiders, but no owner of a…

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Motor Transport

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 7

THE words of the Chief Secretary, Mr. Lazzarini, who spoke at the annual dinner of the Motor Traders' Association of N.S.W…

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Money, Motors, and a Money-Lender Two Men P.N's. Conspiracy? Were Car Sales Fictitious ? Fontaine and Terrill in Trouble

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 11

SENSATIONAL allegations of fraud have been made by the Crown Law authorities against the sales manager and accountant of De Luxe Motors in Elizabeth-street, Sydney…

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Over! Motor Boat Capsizes Rose Bay Thrill

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 5

The motor boating enthusiasts at Rose Bay yesterday afternoon got an unexpected thrill when Lady Betty hurled her two occupants into the water…

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£3,000,000 Railway Moss Vale to Kembla

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 2

No decision has been arrived at yet as to when the Government will honor the election promise of the Premier that the railway from Moss Vale to…

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Three Hurt Motor Cycle Smash

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 2

Swerving to avoid a car in Spitroad, Mosman, yesterday afternoon, a motor cycle and side-car, driven by Cyril Hardwick, of Market-street,…

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Luxury the Modern Car Motor Show What Australia Makes

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 2

Two facts have been vividly impressed on the thousands of visitors to the motor car exhibition arranged by the…

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Aeroplane Crash at Cootamundra

Evening News · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 10

The military plane D.H. 9A. Flight-Lieutenant Switherland Mechanic Compbell on board, crashed at Cootaundrs. Fortunately both escaped injury. The machine, however, suffered severely…

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Aeroplane Crashes Propellor Smashed Wagga

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 1

The aeroplane en route from Melbourne to the Richmond aerodrome struck the ground heavily while trying in land at Cootamundra on Friday…

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Great White Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 14

So far 100,000 people have inspected the Great White Train, which is arousing considerable interest in the towns through which it passes. At each centre the officials are…

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Powerful Body Road Transport Union

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 10

At a conference which was held at the Melbourne Trades Hall, an amalgamation was effected of the federated Carters and Drivers Union of…

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Jaws of Death Were Open Loco-driver's Escape Fall From Running Railway Train Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 5

To fall from a goods train travelling between 20 and 25 miles an hour and escape with a dislocated shoulder and a few abrasions to…

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Ready by End of Year Cook's River Bridge

Evening News · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 11

The first pile of the bridge over the mouth of Cook's River will be driven early next month. Preparations for the construction of…

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Boy Killed. Run Over by Train. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 14

Sydney Elberfield, aged 15, of Moore-street, Coburg, was returning from a picnic on Saturday night with his mother and brother, when he fell out of the train in which he…

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