Main Roads. Record Expenditure. £3,500,000 This Year
For each of the last three years Main Roads Board expenditure has increased, and it is expected that in 1929 there will be a still larger amount spent on main roads…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250
Mulgoa Road Inviting Fresh Tenders "Get Something Better"
A watchful eye has been and is being kept by Cabra-Vale Council on the reconstruction work being done on the Cabramatta-Mulgoa road. Occasionally,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Man Killed Western-Road Collision Bus and Lorry
Albert Edward Randell, aged 32 years, of Meadow-street, Granville, was killed at Parramatta shortly before 9 o'clock on Friday night in a collision between a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New North Road Long Delay in Bridging Mooney Mooney Creek
During an inspection of the new Sydney to Newcastle road last week, experts declared that it was unlikely that the highly would be opened to traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →FELL 60 Feet From Train Hurled to Death in N.Z. River
AUCKLAND, Wednesday. -- A remarkable tragedy occurred on the Whangarei railway line, which winds in and out of mountain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State of the Roads Run to Melbourne Coastal Route Described Beauty on Prince's Highway
ROAD conditions along Prince's Highway, the coastal route between Sydney and Melbourne are described to-day by the N.R.M.A Touring Department. THE road from the City to Tom Ugly's Point…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cause of Danger on the Roads Drivers' Long Hours and Absence of Physical Tests
WOULD YOU agree hat there is a possibility of a driver's long hours causing danger?" "Undoubtedly." This question and answer occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Battle Over Rail v. Road Transport Companies to Co-operate London
The biggest development in rail and road services since the Act empowering the railway companies to take up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycle Racing Popular Billy Lamont Successful English Tour
"Cyclone" Billy Lamont, the crack New South Wales motor cycle speedster is recently been performing very ereditably on the English racing tracks,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Record Captain Campbell's Inspection of the Sahara
Upon his return to London recently, Captain Malcolm Campbell, the famous British motorist, said that he would be unable to make his record-breaking…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lonely Ride Around Australia on a Solo Motor-Cycle
A young Sydney motor-cyclist, Mr. Jeff Munro, claims to be the first to have ridden a single-cylinder Motor-cycle around Australia via Brisbane,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Irritating Delays Ryde Railway Crossing
Serious delays to traffic passing between Ryde and Parramatta continue to be experienced at the level crossing near Ryde Station…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motorist's Pipe Rack Saves the Paintwork
The practice indulges in by pipe-smoking motorists of knocking the ashes out of their pipes through tapping on the paintwork, door handles, etc., hardly…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motor-Cyclist Injured
Harold Paton of Lane Cove, received injuries to the left eye when thrown from his motor-cycle in Kissing Point-road, Dundas, yesterday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"An Amateur Tramp"
"An Amateur Tramp" is the title of a very attractive book by William Freame, who has crowded into 56 pages a surprising amount of information…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Hurt Thrown from Motor-Cycle
Driving a motor car along Church-street, Parramatta, on Sunday evening, Marie Downey (18), of Woodcourt-street, Marrickville, collided with a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycle Skids Rider Badly Injured
On Saturday afternoon W. Ross, a very well-known resident of Church-street, Cabramatta, was very seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Hurt Motor Collision
Mrs. May Carroll, of Kent-street, Epping, received severe cuts to the head and face when a car in which she was travelling on Christmas Day came into…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shockingly Mutilated Unknown Man on Railway Police Description
To date, enquiries made by the Lidcombe police as to the Identity of a middle-aged man, who two weeks ago was found on the railway at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crude Oil For Motor Fuel Increased Prices Possible
The progress of the Diesel and semi-Diesel types of engines as applied to goods and passenger transport on land has been the subject of many references,…
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