Road Control Divisional Engineers
The scheme for decentralisation of the administration of the Main Roads Board has been completed by the appointment of seven special divisional engineers in various parts…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 250
Found a Bag Train Cleaner's Lapse
A railway carriage cleaner, Richard Walter Henry Allen, 23, took home a lady's handbag which had been left in a train at St. James Station. At…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Bloody Road to Peace
"War will never cease to be an instrument of national policy among nations until it has ceased to be endurable. When the horrors of war are such that no nation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mother's Train Bride's Caped Gown Synagogue Wedding
TALL standards of spring flowers and sheaves on every pew decorated the Synagogue last night for the wedding of Miss Brenda Cohen,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Methods in Modern Road Construction. Municipal Engineering
The needs of the modern municipal engineer, and the making: of modern roadways, are naturally greater than ever before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Overturns on Mountain Road. Tamworth
One of the most remarkable accidents that has occurred on Moonbi Range for some years resulted to-day in a big touring car being completely wrecked, and the driver narrowly…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miss Pearl Wins Como Bridge Cup Columbine's Engine Afire
Considerable interest was taken yesterday in the Como Bridge Cup for George's River motor boats. Nine boats faced the starter…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Cars Fall From Bridge. Two Similar Accidents. Melbourne
Two serious motor accidents, caused in the same way, and at the same place, occurred at the overhead railway bridge east of Moe to-day About half-past 8 o'clock, when on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Train Tragedies. at Level Crossings. Auckland (N.z.)
A train travelling through the Waikato at 40 miles an hour crashed into a motor car on the Horotul crossing. Mrs. Armstrong and Miss Howse were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Want Aberdare Street As Main Road Kurei Kurri
In support of Abordure Street as the main thoroughfare of Women, in preference to First Street, a petition containing 800 names has been presented…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Road to Prosperity Queensland Mining Revival Benefits Under Labor
MR. JAMES LARCOMBE, M.L.A. Minister for Railways in Queensland, who is visiting Sydney, discussing last night record and prospects of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spiritualism and a Tragedy Man Decapitated by Train Was It a Prophecy?
A STORY of a spiritualist medium's Prooheey of a "terrible accident" was told at the inquest at Birtley on Thomas William Kenmir, aged 18, of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Land and the producer North Coast Produces Wool of High Quality Gordon Brook Experiments Open Road to New Industry
The North Coast of New South Wales has never been regarded as wool-producing country, yet the wool clip from Gordon. Brook Station, on the Upper Clarence River, was recently sold in Sydney at a price which was 5 d per lb. above…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Cyclist Killed
When two motor cycles collided in Paisly-road, Burwood last night. Allan Baxter Wilson, 23, of Croydon-road, Croylon received injuries from which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pioneer of Motoring
LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU, who has had to cancel all his engagements for the present under medical orders, is normally one of the busiest of men, and has a wide…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Motor Car for 1/-
In this issue appears the first of a series of advertisements relating to an art union authorised by the Attorney-General in aid of the Picton Lakes T.B. Settlement. three are motor cars. The first prize is a fine Sunbeam car valued at £1000, which everyone has a chance of winning for the modest investment of one shilling…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Central Australia Railway. New Section Opened
Last week-end a new section of the North-South railway in Central Australia was put into, commission. The completed section extends from Oodnadatta…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Royal Motor Yacht Club Regatta at Newport
Won by Trixie, second from the left…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motoring. Penrith Speedway. Unconventional Car Promiment
The New Year's Day meeting on the Penrith Speedway was well attended, and proved successful. A programme of car and motor cycle racing was decided, the features of which were the all-powers' motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Ships. Record World's Output. British Production. London, Dec. 31
The world's output of motor ships in 1928 was a record, 189 vessels of 1,177,235 gross tonnage being built, compared with 137 vessels of 816,000 gross tonnage in 1927. British…
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