New Aerodrome. Coffs Harbour
Despite the rain over 4000 people were present when the Coffs Harbour aerodrome was officially opened. Twelve planes took part…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 250
Over Million Miles by Train
PERTH, Monday.--Mr. James, Hammond, one of the conductors on the trans-continental train, has now travelled 1,180,000 miles in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Falls From Bridge. Gundagai
William Irvin, aged 67, fell off the railway bridge and fractured his left thigh, and received other injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road Record. Brisbane to Sydney
After remaining undisturbed for just over two years, the Brisbane to Sydney record established by Messrs. Norman Smith and E. Poole in a 6/70 (4077 c.c.) Chrysler, 16b 5m, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Killed Crashed Into Train Goulburn
While making towards Yarra on a railway tricycle at 12.30 this morning Francis O'Neill, fettler, crashed into the Temora mail and was cut to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collided with Car on Bridge. Kurri Kurri
Believed to have been run over by a inctor-car at Weston overhead bridge to-night, a man named Howard, at Abermala. was admitted to Kurri kurri…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain and Pilot in Dispute Complaint of "Language" on the Bridge
MELBOURNE, Monday. -- "I will work the damned telegraph-myself if you cannot do so." This, according to Captain Alfred Ricea, master of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Troop Train Scandal Recalled by Death General Who Was Held Responsible
THE death has been reported from England of Brigadier-General C. H. Ros recalls the fact that he was removed from his post of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By-pass Dangers. Road Death Toll of 14 Persons Daily
That the toll of motor accidents is unlikely to abate, but will probably increase despite the growing road hence, is shown by the figures of traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Sport Stockton on Road to Cricket Comp. Honors Sailers in Bad Squall
Stockton emerged from the sixth series of matches in the Newcastle District Cricket Association's competition last Saturday with their escutcheon unstained. Each of the six matches they have contested has been won, and, unless…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ten Hurt Motors Crash Lorry and Car Cantbury Accident
TEN people were injured when a motor car and a motor lorry came into collision at the intersection of Albert-street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Died in Tram on Way to Races
L. B. PUNCH about 40 years of age, collapsed in a Randwick race tram to-day. He was taken by the Central Ambulance in Sydney Hospital, where…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycling in France
For the first time in the history of the French motor industry, motor cycles have been given an independent exhibition in the Grand Palais, and quite…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Our Electric Railway Carriages. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The new electric railway carriages leave much to be desired from the point of view of comfort. They compare most unfavourably with the old steam carriages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Accidents. Lorry Driver Fatally Injured. West Maitland
Clive Wells, 14, of Dungog, died in hospital from injuries received in a motor accident on Fosterton-road. Wells was on a milk delivery motor when at a turn in the road…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Killed. Motor Cycle Skids. Kalgoorlie
About 4.45 o'clock this afternoon a motor cycling accident, In which Charles Noel Shaw, aged 29 years, met his death, occurred in Piccadilly-street, Kalgoorlie. Shaw was riding up…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Alleged Assault. on Newcastle Girl. Sequel to Motor Jaunt. Newcastle
An attempt to assault a young Newcastle girl is alleged to have been made by three young men on a bush trade near Swansea in the early hours of this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Noisy Motor Cycle. to the Editor Op the Herald
Sir,—It seems a pity that it should be made necessary for a woman, in order to protect her shell-shocked soldier sons, to take the law into her own hands and throw mud at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Show. Opening Next Week
The sixth motor show promoted by tne Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales will open at the Agricultural Ground on January 11. when one of the finest exhibitions of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring News Emancipation Day. England's Unique Celebration
Thirty-two years ago, in England, the liberation of motoring from the restrictive laws, notably the one which compelled a car while on the rond to be preceded by a man bearing…
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