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Railways, roads & transport, 1927

16,644 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

Canterbury Trams

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 28

Commencing on Monday, a direct service of trams is to be run between Fort Macquarie and Canterbury. The service is to be at intervals of 20min…

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Some Interior Views of Sydney's Great Motor Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 15

The Hall of Industries The Hordern Pavilion…

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Sydney's Great Motor Show a Wonderful Exhibition an Instant Appeal to Everyone

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 16

VISITORS' to the show this year will find many new points of interest. Even in the comparatively short period of a year…

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Some of the Exhibits in the Anthony Hordern Pavilion Stand No. 2: BIDEN and ROBERTS. Indian and Rudge-Whitworth Motor Cycles

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 17

Messrs. Biden and Roberts, of Hay Street, Sydney, have an excellent exhibit of Indian and Rudgo-Whitwortn motor cycles, for which they are the…

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Fuel Economy in Motors

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 20

American automobile manufacturers are striving as never before to develop the perfect automobile from the stand and that emphasises the importance of…

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Motor Cycling Men and Machines Western Suburbs M.C.C. Flexability Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 21

The Western Suburbs Motor Cycle Club will hold a flexibility test on the usual ground this afternoon. On Saturday, January 29, it is…

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Cold Motor Causes Trouble

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 20

One of the most important conclusions drawn from a recent investigation made by prominent automotive authorities was that 50 to 75 per cent…

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Bad Eyesight Plays Its Part Cause of Many Motor Accidents "Unfit" Being Eliminated in U.S.A.

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 23

The writer of the following interesting article is chairman of the Motor Vision Commission of the Optometric Association of the…

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Roadside Aid for Motorists

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 21

One of the most popular of the numerous branches of activity pursued by the N.R.M.A. is that furnishing "get-you-home" service by the…

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Sydney to Perth W.A. Motor Cyclists

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 21

The 16 members of the Harley Davidson Motor-cycle Club of West Australia left Sydney on Thursday last to make the return trip, via the Prince's…

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A Car for every 71 Persons Oddities and Sidelights on Motordom Throughout the World. (By William Ullman.)

Italian Bulletin of Australia · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 29

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Motorship Augustus

Italian Bulletin of Australia · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 11

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More Waste a Road That's Rutty

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 22

THE road construction work on the Prince's Highway between Nowra and Falls Creek is anything but a satisfactory job…

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Watch It Crow More Bridge Cranes London

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 1

Messrs. Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., contractors for the Sydney Harbor bridge, expect thai the first giant 600- ton. creeper crane will be ready in…

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"Shell" Shows How It Handles Motor Spirit in Bulk

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 24

The exhibit of the British Imperial Oil Co., Ltd., is always attractice, and this year extra care seems to have been lavished on its preparation…

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Three Hurt in Tram Collision at Petersham

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 1

A motor car, containing Frank Abigail, 37, a cabinetmaker. of Hercules-street, Ashfield; William Bell, 50, of Northum-berland-avenue, Stanmore; and Thomas…

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The Jowett for Economy Motoring

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 24

About 21 years ago tho Jowett Company produced what was to to the founder of the present light car for economy-motoing movement, by their insistence…

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Among the Exhibitors at the Motor Show New Morris Chassis Has Many Pleasing Features

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 24

In their main exhibit, Williams Bros. are showing a collection of seven Morris cars, three Sunbeams, an Alvis, and a Leon Bollce…

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Consolidated Motors Ltd. Make Impressive Show. Display

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 25

Although Consolidated Motors, Ltd., has been in active operation for only two months, its sales have been phenomenally heavy, and public confidence in its…

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Four Persons Shot in Railway Brawl

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 1

The Acting-Commissioner of Police (Superintendent Branston) received a telegram yesterday to the effect that three men and a woman at the tunnel railway…

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