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Railways, roads & transport, 1928

14,385 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250

To-day's Tram Services

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 5

A special service of trams will run from Circular Quay and the Railway to the Sydney C[?] Gr[?]nd to-day Monday and Tuesday commercing at…

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MOTORS & Motoring an Attentive Ear Will Save Big Repair Bills Engine Knocks and Noises

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 27

All motorists should pay attention to the running of their cars and endeavor to understand the sound of the engine when it is running properly. A…

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Optimistic Farmers Appeal for Railway Concessions Commissioners Consider Times Too Hard for More Liberality

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 24

The Railway Commissioners make it plain that in the present financial position of the Railways the requests of primary producers for further concessions in rates cannot, for economic reasons, be entertained. Their view is that producers…

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Motor Cycling -- Club News -- Men and Machines Six Days' Trial Provisional Results

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 35

Out of the 37 riders who started in the seventh annual six days' trial conducted by the M.C.C. of N.S.W. over the holidays only 19 completed the…

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Road Courtesy

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 8

SHOULD you meet another motorist who is experiencing trouble with his car, always ease up, and offer…

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"Cross-Roads of the World"

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 5

Stay-at-home Australians can scarcely really what a really modern theatre such as the Paramount, in New York, means. Known as "The Cross Roads of the World," this theatre is 37 storeys high. It scats 6000 people, and has an orchestra of 85 pieces. Yet this enormous structure…

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Stones on Roads Are Source of Danger

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 19

Definite action should be taken to suppress the menace caused by motorists leaving on the roads large stones used as chocks for their wheels. The N.R.M.A…

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Preserving Roads S.A. Imposes Needed Restrictiosns

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 19

New regulations designed to minimise damage to road by motor vehicles, particularly of the heavier type, have just been put into force…

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Road Repairers Don't Consider the Public

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 19

During the recent rain motorists between Gosford and Newcastle were marooned because lengths of the road about to be reconstructed were ploughed…

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S-snap! Test for Steel Bridge Caution a Handful of cement

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 3

On it may depend the security of a towering building; the stability of a mighty dam. A bar of steel…

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Jottings of a Lady About Town On the Right Road

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 18

VERY bad luck attended Mrs. David Baxter over the Christmas and New Year holidays. She has been lying very seriously ill in Wootten Private Hospital,…

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Looking for Work Found Death Instead Man on Top of Train West Maitland

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 5

George St. Clair Strickland was killed near Oakhampton on the North Coast line this morning. He and another youth, who came…

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Killed on Lonely Road Young Man Charged with Murder of Micham Woman Bloodstained Axe Found

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 21

ERNEST Ambrose Kleinert, 20, a laborer, residing with his father at Mitcham, was arrested yesterday morning by the police and was subsequently formally charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary Sampson, on January 3…

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Voice of Dead S.4 Victim Condemned Navy Before He Died No Motor Tests Boston

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 1

A letter written by Lieutenant Donold Weller, one of the victims of the sunken submarine, S.4, disaster, and published in n Boston newspaper, said, in…

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Fatal Motor Mishap Wollongong

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 1

As the result of injuries received through being thrown from a motor lorry coming down Bulli Pass, Frederick Laves, of Hurstville, died in Bulli…

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Jenolan Caves Motorists Should Note Traffic Rules

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 19

Motorists visiting Jenolan Caves are advised by the N.R.M.A. to adhere strictly to the regulation with regard to traffic on tho Five-mile Hill…

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Motors Wizard Smith (Australia Speed King) Tells you How to Become Good Motorists American Builds 1500 h.p. Car to Break World's Record

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 18

J. M. White, of Philadelphia, U.S.A., is building a freak car powered by three 500-h.p. Liberty aeroplane engines, which will give tho car a total h.p. of 1500. Next month he intends making an attempt on the world record of 203 m.p.h. established by Major Segrave at Daytona Beach in…

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New Model British Car for Our Conditions at Motor Show

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 19

I have recently had the privilige of learning some advance details of a new model of an already famous British car. This car will lie on…

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Motor Cycling Benstead's Record Dean's Daring Riding Big Crowd

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 7

DESPITE the cold southerly the 12,000 spectators who attended the Speedway Royal last night witnessed brilliant motor cycling…

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Motor Speeding. Maroubra Last Night's Racing

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 7

RACING was resumed last night at Maroubra Speedway, where a splendid programme was [?] through…

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