Precision Counts Diamond Tests in Motor Building Plant
Visitors to the Oakland Motor Car Company's plant receive an accurate conception of the phrase "precision manufacturing."…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 250
Superstitions Queer Motoring Customs Those Hideous "Bathing Belles"
SUPERSTITIONS pray a more or less important part in deciding what a person shall or shall not do the whole world over, and on this account peculiar…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Cyclists' Unlucky Spin Critically Injured
Reginald Ernest Hamsard, 21, of Pentland Avenue, Punchbowl, was critically injured in Albert Street, Campsie. at 10.30 o'clock last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Children Buried Together Sympathy for Victims of Motor Tragedy
There were touching scenes at Willoughby and the Northern Suburbs Cemetery yesterday, when the bodies of Alice and Katherine Williams, victims…
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ARMIDALE, Thursday.--The dramatic exploit of Young Lochinvar was recently given a modern and equally romantic setting in this district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →St. George Motor Boat Club
St. George Motor Boat Club will hold two races to-morrow (Anniversary Day) for speed boats, and hydroplanes. The placed boats in "C" class should…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Mountain's Water. Springwood's Plight. Supply From Railway Dam Proposed
About 40 representative residents of the districts of Springwood, Faulconbridge, Valley Heights, Warrimoo, and Glenbrook, in the Blue Mountains shire, waited upon the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mix-up on Bridge Road Men Hurt, Horse Killed, and Lorry Smashed
Two men were injured, a horse was killed, a cart wrecked, and a motor lorry badly damaged in a smash on Bridge Road, Drummoyne, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Auction Bridge. "Quick Tricks."
The most important thing in bidding is that the "original" or "free" bid should be sound. It is true that a few years ago there were considerable differences of opinion among…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Aeroplane Fatality Late Mr A. C. SMITH
Mr Alfred Charles Smith, of Cornwallis, Windsor, who was killed while working on his farm on Monday by a Moth aeroplane crashing into him,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Widening Parramatta Road
At Tuesday night's meeting of the Holroyd Council there was a letter from the Main Roads Board, replying to Council's letter urging the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Missed Train by Few Feet Car Plunges Through Fence to Railway Tyres Blew Gut
Smashing its way through a heavy timber fence at terrific speed, a motor-car, out of control, crashed on to the railway line at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →King Petrol's Day Grand Moguls of the Road Tramway Monopoly Doomed No. 6
THE recent traffic census showed that 90 per cent, of the vehicular road traffic is petrol-driven. This 90 per cent, is privately—almost wholly individually—owned. It carried 15 per cent, of the estimated passenger loadings across the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gladesville Bridge Cause of Serious Hold-up
Motorists proceeding to and from ilia northern suburbs via the bridges complain bitterly of the "hold-up" at the Gladesville Bridge on nearly every…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Bridge Tolls Limit of 6d per Car
The announcement that the toll on motor cars passing over the new George's River bridge, after its opening, probably at Easter, will not exceed [?]d…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Kingswood-Richmond Road Board Undertakes Maintenance
At the last meeting of Richmond Council a letter was received from the Main Roads Board advising that it had been decided to make certain funds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Territory. Rail and Road Work
Mr. J. Horsburgh, one of the Commissioners for the Northern Territory, who arrived in Sydney en route to Canberra, said that much attention was now being…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Auction Bridge Element of Chance Significance of Pass
When the last word of theory on the subject has been spoken there still remains, and must remain, an element of doubt in the bidding at Auction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mulgoa Road THAT £5000 Grant Everything in Order
Many months ago, Fairfield, Nepean, and St. Marys Councils were notified that a grant of £5000 had been made for the reconstruction of that portion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motors Motorist Motoring What Is a "Road Hog?" In Many Cases the Name is Not Justified the Motorist, Too, Has Rights
While there are many motorists who honestly attempt to obey the rules of the road, there are almost certain to be occasions when every motorist dubbed by a fellow-motorist "Road-hog."…
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