Shot Dead When Escaping Unknown Tramp's Fate MELBOURNE.Thursday
A Coroner's Enquiry was opened today ut Leltehville concerning the death of a tramp who was shot dead when escaping from u lock-up store early…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250
Salv'tion Officer Misses Death Runaway Motor Car Thrice at Wiseman's Ferry
By export driving. Wit. While, a Salvation Army officer, saved himself and his wife from certain death rear Wiseman's Ferry yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Engines Meet Head-on Perth
Ten men had miraculous escapes from Injury this morning ut the Forth railway yards, when an engine, emerging from tho sheds, collided with an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glad to Be Back Popular Motorist Mrs.j.s. Jones' Trip
Mrs.J.S. Jones. who with her lamely has just returned from an eight moths trip declared that of all blameful pinenes shp has verballed Australia companies…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Railway Gauge "Big Four's" Plan Minister's Criticism
THE Minister for Lands, Mr. Ball, said yesterday that he had noted the Dig Four's recommendations with regard lo our rail-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Rail Motors for Queensland Brisbane
Six additional rail motor cars are being built at the Ipswich workshops, and when finished will fio used to combat the competition of road motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The World of Motoring With Special Attention Motor Show Opens To-day Ten Days to Inspect What Will the Harvest Be?
To-DAY at 8 p.m. was all the pomp and circumstndnees the doors of the sinth Annat Metor show will be llone onen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Smash Victim Loses Leg Five Hurl When Rail Motor Derailed
MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- The Geelong rail motor was derailed near Laverton last night, and five people injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Capsize or Drop of 100 FEET Motorist Decided Luckily and Ran Into Rock
Faced with a capsize or a dive over a 100ft. embankment at Wiseman's Perry yesterday Nathaniel White (35), a Salvation Army officer, of Anne Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Man Killed in Motor Smash
TAREE, Thursday. -- David Slyney (70), of . Moorland, was killed in a motor smash on the Chatham Road yesterday, and H. Cross, of Stewart…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Inter-club Motor Boating Royal Motor Yachts' Middle Harbor Trip
The first inter-club contest this season of the New South Wales Motor Boat Association will take place at Cook's River on, January 19…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Motor Excursion to Sublime Point, Bulli
Our readers will notice in our advertising columns particulars of this trip, which will take place on Sunday, the 27th inst. cars will start from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blacktown-Kingswood Road Main Roads Board to Control
A l[?]ad was lifted off the minds of Al[?] of Penrith last, Tuesday, when the Main Roads Board wrote stating that as the Penrith Council did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Dog Trap' ' Road
Along the old "dog-trap" road (Main Southern) from Woodville to Liverpool, there is at present a great deal of activity on the part of land…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fell From Moving Train
William Gregory, of Wells Street, Granville, suffered scalp wounds when he fell from a train at Summer Hill railway station last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rail and Motor. Is Competition Alarming? Government Policy. Good Roads As Feeders
The growing competition between the railways and the motor vehicles which run upon the adjacent roads was referred to yesterday by the Premier (Mr. Bavin) at the opening…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Train Is Derailed Newcastle
The derailment of a pick-up train near Cardiff this afternoon, fouled both railway tracks. The lines were cleared by a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kings of the Road 1929 Motor Show Is Best Yet Held
Enormous advance in car. design and construction com firms solidity of motor industry throughout the world. LOCAL INDUSTRIES WELL TO THE FORE Cars, trucks, chassis, accessories--in fact, everything dear to the heart of the…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Manly's Big Gambling Wave Poker & Bridge Orgies
IN BRILLIANTLY lighted club rooms, big business houses, and luxuriously furnished apartments, the gambling fever is spreading…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Settlers Here South Australian Plan. Melbourne
"A training farm for new settlers should be established in Australia, not in Britain," said the secretary of the South Australian Rural Producers'…
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