Request for Motor Buses. Broken Hill
The Barrier Horsedrivers and Wholesale Employees' Union unanimously passed a motion that their delegates should be in structed to ask the Industrial…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1927
16,644 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250
On Wrong Side Boy Injured by Tram
A boy whoso name is belieyed to be Edgar Eastman, of The Avenue, Randwick, was selling papers on the wrong side of a tram in Belmore-road, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Millions Ford Motor Profits Colossal Claims World's Greatest Tax Case Detroit
On Tuesday the Government will open a suit for the purpose of collecting £6,000,000, alleged to be overdue profit taxes from nine original…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Saved His £20 Motorist Senses Hold-up Two Armed Men Melbourne
Two armed and masked men held up a motor car at West Melbourne on Saturday, and searched the driver, Mr. Percival…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners at Leisure Tramway Life Savers Women Street Sweepers
F IT COULD ONLY SPEAK.--This old gun could unfold many thrilling stories if it were able to. These little girls are keenly interested in the monument, perhaps because of its quaint appearance. HEIR HOLIDAY.--Kurri Kurri miners enjoying their brief respite from toil during the Christmas season. Hexham is a favored resort for many families on the Northern coal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fewer Motor Smashes Boy Badly Injured Ferris Wheel Scare
Apart from the terrible smash in which R. G. ("Phil") Garlick met his death on Saturday night, no fatalities occurred. Motor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Not So Many Motor Smashes
At the week-end, the motor casualty -list was much lessened. Following are the names of the victims:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Show Better Than Before
Evidence of the keen interest that the motor industry is taking in the Motor Show, which will be held under the suspices of the Motor Traders'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Truck's Load
FINLEY.--A motor truck carried 406 bags of wheat in one day from 12 miles out…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →C. AND D. LINE New Motor Ships
The motor ship Port Dunedin, of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, arrived at Melbourne yesterday from London, en route to Sydney. The voyage from London to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Driver Arrested Motor Car Collision MELBOURNE
At daybreak yesterday a sedan car, driven by a young man, Percival Monkivitch, swerved into a telegraph pole on the side of Pakington Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hit with Iron Bar Motor-driver Attacked PARKES
About 10.30 a.m. yesterday two young men engaged Harold Powter, a motor car proprietor, to drive them along Forbes Road, with the ostensible…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Revolvers Drawn Railway Gang Robbed GRAFTON
When two young men who had rifled the coats of a railway fettler's gang at South Grafton were caught, they produced revolvers and threatened to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Help for the Motorist-- Multi-disc Clutches
RECENTLY a friend of mine bought a car which was fitted with a multi-disc clutch; and, although he was an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eagle Attacks Motor
A royal eagle, measuring six feet from tip to tip of its wings, swept down and attacked an automobile driving along a country road at Chambery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Policeman Shot Girl and Motorist LONDON, Saturday, January 8
Receiving a complaint from a girl who was traversing a country lane at Newark, Plain-clothes Constable Dainty endeavored to detain a motorist whom…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bride Injured Wedding in Hospital Motors Collide, Melbourne
Rarely are two cars seen together in one street in Benalla, a quiet country town, but yesterday a taxi-cab, conveying a bridal party to a church,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Canterbury Trams Improved Service to Quay
Following upon representations made from time to time regarding the proposed through tramway service between Canterbury and Circular Quay…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Yarrawonga Railway Bridge. Albury
Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., having interviewed the Victorian Railway Commissioners, in regard to the construction of a bridge over the Murray at Yarrawonga, for the purposes of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Huge Bearings For Harbor Bridge Carried on Special Train London, Monday, Jan. 10
A special train, travelling along two lines of track, transported from Darlington to Middlesex docks two of the biggest bearings known to engineers…
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