The Tramp's Lament "Lang Government Has Made Things So Hard"
Samuel Crozier, who is "humping his bluey" in an effort to hold life together, says that it is now almost impossible to earn a crust…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
14,385 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250
Yachting. Wild Blow Utiekah's Boomerang Cup Aeroplane Beaten
IN a wild southerly which gave yachtsmen plenty of thrills, the recognised hard weather boats scooped the pool in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Cycling Newcastle
WESTERN Suburbs cycling road race resulted W. Leonard 1. J. Ramsay 2. R. Coxon 3. T. Lambert fastest time, 13min 4sec…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Is It Aeroplane Wreckage? Forest Ranger Sights Strange' Objects Auckland
This afternoon the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department received the following statement from Mr. Phillips, the forest ranger at Kaitoke: "I have seen what I consider might be the remains of an airship on the slopes of Omega, close to the Grey town-Otaki track. One object has the appearance of a tent, two feet wide by four feet high another has the appearance of a grey-white flat object."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train on Fire Lucky Passengers ADELAIDE
While standing at Gawler railway station, on the usual journey from Adelaide to Angaston this morning, a rail car burst into flames. Between 30. and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MOTORS (Continued) When Your Car Stops on the Road How to Discover it the Fault is Electrical
The motor driver, and particularly the novice, is often at a loss where to look for the trouble when his car suddenly stops chugging, without apparent reason. Quite a lot of drivers lift up the bonnet without any…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Among Savages Birtles on Road Again CALCUTTA
Francis Birtles, Australian overlander, who is motoring from London to Australia in a Bean car, is continuing bis journey to-morrow to Burma by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Trams and the City Railway
While attention is being focussed on speculative suggestions as to what to do with the trams, or what is likely to be done with them, there is a danger that the real problem will be neglected. The rapid completion of the underground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rail Hoodoo on Express Train Lines Another Derailment Broken Hill Express Delayed Six Hours
Saturday is the Railway Department's unlucky day. Further evidence of this was a derailment at Gunning yesterday morning--just five minutes after a Friday, which was the 13th of the month, too!…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drunken Beano High Jinks in Taxi-Cab in Parramatta Road Magistrate's Caustic Comment
There were high jinks in a taxicab on the Parramatta Road on January 4—so high, in fact, that the Parramatta police had to take a hand. The dramatis personae were—:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Year's Gain How State was Motorised in 1927 Horse Vehicles Less
Every twelfth person in New South Wales owns a motor vehicle, and about every ninth is allowed by law to drive one, says the N.R.M.A…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Motor Show a Million in Motors Exhibits of all Classes at the Motor Show More Comfort, More Color, More Speed, and More Miles
No industry in the world can show such remarkable achievements in so few years as the motor industry. A quarter of a century ago a car was a race novelty on the roads. To-day it has outdistanced all…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →General Motors (Stand 84, Hall of Industry.)
The display of General Motors (Aust)Pty. Ltd., is in conjunction with their metropolitan distributors, Messrs Boyd Edkins Ltd., and John McGrath, Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Motors. Wizard Smith New Vauxhall Arrives dvanced Carburation System Gives High Efficiency
Vauxhall has introduced a new 20-60 model to Australia. It is a six-cylinder British built car, eminently suitable for the varying! phases of motoring in Australia, and is making its debut at the motor show…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Mr. A. J. Knowles Returns Head of Grande Motors
MR. A. J. KNOWLES HAS RETURNED TO AUSTRALIA TO HEAD THE GRANDE MOTORS ORGANISATION. As the pioneer of Australian motoring, he was the first to put the motor business on a commercial scale in this country…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Motor Boats Ladies at Rose Bay Good Sport
Tho ladies events at Rose Bay promoted by the Royal Motor Yacht Club always cause much interest with the fair sex Yesterday the weather wan most unfavorable, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor Clubs Busy Again A. Dures' Success
Having get over the Christmas holidays, read motor cyclists were busy yesterday participating in hill-climbing and [?]celeration tests, Many clever…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Motor Show Brilliant Display of Vehicles Several New Makes Presented
EVERYONE of a progressive turn of mind should not fail to visit the fifth Annual Motor Show now being held at the Agricultural Ground, Moore Park. THE brilliant array of motor vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sneddon's Motors
ENGLISH and American productions are featured by Sneddons Motors, Ltd., who are showing Rugby and Singer cars. The Rugby range is represented by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Bit of a Blow" Waitress' Story of Struggle With Man in Motor-car Rebuked by Magistrate
THOSE who make it a practice in their hours of leisure to foregather in the back of the Police Courts, were severely disappointed on Wednesday last when Mr. Perry, S.M., ordered them out of the court for the hearing of a serious…
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