Across Africa Motorists' Record Run Through Desert and Jungle
In order to demonstrate the practicability of a highway from Cairo to Capetown, Mr. G. S. Bouwer, the South African motorist, left London in August, and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250
"Scaling the Railway"
Food for serious thought is provided by the prevalence of what is commonly termed "scaling the railway." Of all forms of dishonesty there are few, if any, more contemptible than this one. The spectacle of any citizen stooping to lies and conceit in order…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Accident Car Overturns
Belmore-street, Ryde is on the list for re-construction during this quarter, and probably Jack A. G. Garlick, last Wednesday evening, thought that it was not…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Rail Versus Motor
The inevitability of the growth of road transport, and of the supercession of the railways for certain classes of traffic, which has been stressed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Pedestrians' Paradise Gaol for Motorists Involved in Accidents
A report from Madrid states that by a stroke of its pen, the Prime Minister, General Prime de Riviera, signed an order enforcing the immediate attest of any…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Motoring and Engineering Items of Interest to the Motorist Sleuths of the Sky Stars Seen 140,000,000 Miles Away
If the idea of an American astronomer, Professor Ritchey, proves to be practical, astronomical telescope mirrors six times larger than the giant…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Motor - Cycles Collide Sequel in Court Prosecution Fails
A collision between two motor-cycles in Church-street, Parramatta, on the night of November 9 had its sequel at the Parramatta Police court yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British Foxhunter. How He Overawed a Railway Company
In "The Passing Years," a recent volume of reminiscences, the late Lord Willoughby de Broke has almost as much to say about horses, dogs and foxes as of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Traction Indispensable to the Merchant Trans-continental Motor 'Bus Service
In September, last year, there was inaugurated in America a trans-Continental motor 'bus service, from Los Angeles, in California, to New York,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring to Barrington Tops. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I think there is some mistake about the claim made in the interesting article of your issue of January 22. Indeed, in the course of the article Mr. Medway Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Port Kembla Railway. Bowral
Mr. M. F. Morton, M.L.A., has been advised that the Railway Commissioners state it is not correct that there is a considerable slackness of work on the Port Kembla raliway…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ford Motor Co., England
An immediate effect of the successful flotation of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., England, last month, was a widespread liquidation of the shares of British motor companies,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Notes. Motor Revenue
Returns now made available disclose that during 1928 the motorists of New South Wales paid directly in taxes, fees, and fines the sum of £1,630,987, or an increase of £282,133…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Depreciation. Motors and Income Tax
It is considered that a clause in the Income Tax Management Act now in operation, which allows the Commissioner of Taxation to fix a just and reasonable rate for depreciation,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cyclist Injured
Roy de Wer, 26, labourer, of Titanla-street, Randwick, was seriously injured yesterday morning when the motor cycle he was riding collided with a motor car in Belmore-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sisters Killed. Struck by Motor Car. Tragedy at Willoughby
A dreadful tragedy occurred in Penshurst-street, Willoughby, last night, when two children (sisters) were struck by a car and killed within a few yards of the front door of their…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Women Killed. Motoring Accidents. Melbourne
Injuries received by Miss Eva Gentry, 20. Darebin-street, Northcote, proved fatal when she was knocked down by a motor car at the intersection of Elizabeth and Latrobe streets…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lawson Tragedy. Sequel to Collision. Motorist Committed for Trial
At the conclusion of an inquiry into the deaths of Annie Christina Haigh and Isabel MacFayden, who were killed when a motor coach in which they were travelling collided…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Heavy Traffic Week End Motor Trips N.r.m.a. Report
Week-end motor traffic in the metropolitan district and along the "one-day" trip roads continues heavy, reports the N.R.M.A. Touring Department. Many of these roads have suffered under the strain,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →'Plumbers' Graveyards' Pits for Motorists
One of the biggest bugbears with which the motorist in the Northern Suburbs has to contend are "plumbers' "graveyards."…
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