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Railways, roads & transport, 1929

14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 250

Congestion Near Tram Depot

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 26

For some considerable time the congestion of traffic at Rushcutters Bay tram depot has been. appalling. Road users have been subjected to no end of…

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Motor Motorist Motoring the Motor World Lack of Co-operation Retards Natural Development

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 26

Motoring now plays such An important part in our home; busings, and industrial life that no one associated. with automobile activities in any…

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Archibald Prize Awarded --Railway Station Unroofed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 8

ARCHIBALD PRIZE.--Portrait of Dr. Leeper, by Sir John Longstaff, awarded this year's prize. Dr. Leeper was a former warden of Trinity College, Melbourne. DR. J. HAMILTON, medical superintendent, Newcastle Hospital, receiving a presentation from…

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Inter-club Motor Boating

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 31

The N.S.W. Motor Boat Association: will open its third season for the Association Shield and Presidents Cup at Cook's River, to-day…

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Woman Must Pay £70 for Motor Offences License Cancelled for Three Years

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--In spite of a plea' that she had £70 in fines- to pay for motor offences, Mona Chapman was refused time to pay fines of…

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Car Smash Called Firemen Furious Dash of Man in Stolen Car Wrecks Cycle and Fire Alarm Tram in Flames

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

Furiously driving a stolen car at 50 miles an hour along Bondi Road, Bondi, a young man, by wrecking a pillar Ere alarm, called…

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Panic in Tramcar Hoodlums Put Detonators on Line

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 2

The explosion of detonators placed on the tramline by hoodlums opposite Waverley Park last night caused something of a panic in a tram…

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Build Concrete Roads

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 12

WAYS and means of unifying the railway gauges of the Commonwealth are at present being considered by the Bruce-Page Government but as the total cost will be in the vicinity of £20,000,000 there seems no prospect of evolving a satisfactory…

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Killed by Train

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 6

Thomas Clark, aged 40, a returned soldier, who escaped early yesterday morning from the Liverpool State Hospital, was later found dead on the…

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The Kate Shelly Bridge

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 3

SOME friends of mine recently returned from a visit to America. While there they visited the little town ol Boone, in Iowa, in which they heard…

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Congestion at the Spit Bridge Motorists Blamed Additional Police

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 3

Additional police will cope with the huge volume of traffic at the Spit bridge this week-end. Last Sunday, when the record number of 8852 cars…

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Auction Bridge Importance of Counting

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 28

It is notorious that the onlooker sees most of the same, and from his position of advantage, seeing two hands, he is in possession of positive information which…

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George's River Bridge Opening Date Is Announced

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 14

Some date between March 23 and April 15 has been tentatively fixed for the opening of the big bridge across the George's River, at Tom…

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Old Man's Death Run Down by Train

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 1

THOMAS CLARK, who had been an inmate of the State Home at Liverpool for tome time, wandered out of the institution last…

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Attacked While Asleep--Seaman Stabbed to Death in Bed by Shoe Held to Railway Line Train Rushes on Woman's Awful Death Toowoomba

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 2

Held, presumably, by the heel of Her shoe to the track at the local, railway crossing to-day. Mrs. Edward Perkins, wife of…

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On Going a Journey Along a Road That Led to Court

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 15

JUST before Christmas Joseph Marks, a millinery manufacturer, of 50 Parramatta-road, Petersham, told his tenant,…

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The Motor Show Mack Trucks Will Be. Distributed by the N.Z. LOAN & M.A. CO

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 15

The New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., have secured the distributionship for the Mack International Truck Companies' products…

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Motor Parties Visiting Kangaroo Point: on Hawkesbury

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 14

An increasingly large number of motoring parties are visiting Kangaroo Point, Hawkesbury River, each week-end. New concrete surface is…

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World Motoring Fixtures

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 14

We have just received a copy of the international fixture list for motor races, reliability trials, rallies, and…

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Premier Against Private Control of Trams Impracticable, He Says New Transport Bill

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 4

"I have seen Mr. Stewart's statement," said the Premier (Mr. Bavin) yesterday, referring to an article in the "Sunday Times," in which Mr…

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