Coff's Harbour. Opening of Aerodrome
The Aero Club of New South Wales will be represented by five aeroplanes at the opening to-day of the aerodrome at Coff's Harbour. The Civil Aviation Department will be…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
13,038 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 250
Billet Through Train Window
PASSENGERS by a train from Parramatta to Sydney last night had a sensational experience, when a bullet crashed through a window…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Design Limits Car Production
A SHORT while ago it was asserted in America that there would be fifty million cars registered in the United States by 1950. Countering this assertion, the president of one of the leading makers of automobiles…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →Penrith Road Reconstruction to Begin Soon
MOTORISTS will be interested to learn that the dangerously bad state of the main western road through Penrith Should be, within the next few…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →State Highways Many Miles Under Main Roads Board Control
INTERESTING figures have been made available by the Main Roads Board relative to the mileage of roads in which the Board is now directly concerned. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Shot Fired at Electric Train Passenger Narrowly Missed
A shot was fired at an electric train late last night, as it sped past Flemington railway station. The bullet crashed through the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Main Roads. Board's Activities. £12,000,000 Expended. Progress During 1929
Steady progress has been maintained in developing State roads during the past year. The Main Roads Board of New South Wales has been in existence for four and a half…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Road Job Nine Miles of the Federal Highway
THE longest length of work yet let by the Main Roads Board in one contract, is for the formation and draining of over nine miles of the new Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →On the Road to Mt. Tomah, Kurrajong, N.S.W.
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Continued on Trove, page 10 →6 Vic. Smashes 1 DEAD : 10 Hurt Toll of Motor Melbourne
SIX motoring accident early to-day resulted in death of a man and injury to ten people. They were:— KILLED…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →W.A. Derby Won by 50 to One Chance Karrakatta Plate to Gallant Airman Hint's Railway Stakes
Two days' racing of the W.A.T.C. carnival have been completed, and the attendance and Totalisator figures have been most satisfactory, especially as it was thought the existing depression would affect the meeting. MR. W. J. WINTERBOTTOM'S Algol…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motoring "Wizard" Smith Sails for New Zealand Mystery Car Christened "Anzac" First Race Probably on January 14th
Great excitement on the Maunganui on Friday last (December 27), when Mr. Norman ("Wizard") Smith, motoring editor of the "Sunday Times," sailed for New Zealand with his big golden "Anzac" mystery car, to attack the world's ten miles record…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Relaxing After Test R.L. Tourists go Easy Met the Prince : Loch Lomond's Beauties : Pleasant Motoring Spins in Scotland
During the past week we had met the Prince of Wales. He was visiting Bradford, and, with some ex-service men, we had the pleasure of forming his guard of honor at the Cenotaph. He chatted with Mr. Lorne Dargin and Tom German for a few minutes, and expressed regret that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Proposed Site for Civic Centre Near Central Railway Station Submitted by Roland Cook to the Town Planning Association of N.S.W.
The proposed site is bounded by Elizabeth, Foveaux, Belmore, and Albion Streets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Covent Garden and Motor Transport
TO stand in Covent Garden Market between the hours of midnight, and 6 a.m., and see Hie hundreds of tons of country produce which is nightly brought in from all points of the provincial compass, is the only…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →MOTORING Review of Motoring in 1929
While it is impossible to compress into the confines of one article anything in the nature of an accurate dissection of the motor happenings of the past year, it is, at least, practicable to present a short summary of salient fads which will serve to refresh the mind of the reader, and will possibly accord him some data upon which to base his various predictions for the new year. DIGHTLY, enough, the general aim of all such…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Railwaymen's Ballot
Arrangements have been completed for the ballot of railwaymen to decide whether they should handle coal produced at the Rothbury mine. The ballot will be conducted under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Armed Thief. Robs Railway Station. Melbourne
A thief entered the office of the Tottenham railway station last night, and, presenting a revolver at a young porter, robbed the till of £3/9/, and disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MOTORING. Sydney to Melbourne. a Rapid Drive
As a beginning to an interstate holiday tour, Mr. Don Robertson made an exceptionaily fast trip from Sydney to Melbourne in a fully-equipped standard model 615 Graham Paige roadster car…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Letters Our Railways. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—This evening our new railway chief, Mr. W. J. Cleary, spoke over the air, and I Was much impressed by the informal, sincere, and practical manner of his address, and the…
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