Intelligent Motor That Is All Ears New York
A driverless car obeyed the spoken word, moving backward and forward, turning the lights on and off. upon instructions dictated through a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
13,038 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250
A Million Motor Show Values Record Sought
What is now just a tangled mass of woodwork, colored paper, ribbons, streamers and parts of cars, will on Friday become a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News From the Country in Good Spirits Railway Thief's Venture Parkes
Somewhere, sometime between the loading of a railway truck in Sydney and its arrival at Parkes, a man started the New Year in good spirits…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Reduction Railway Carriage Men
On behalf of the Railway Commissioners an application was made to the Industrial Registrar this morning for a reduction in the wages of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sequel to Motor Smash Manslaughter Charge
Victor James Kell, 36, electrician was committed for trial on February 10 at Parramatta Courthouse by the Parramatta District Coroner. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plucky News Boy Dragged Under Tram Marvellous Escape
THE remarkable grit of a little newsboy won the admiration of a large crowd in King Street, City, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rothbury Counter Move Extending Area of Black Ban Refusal to Buy Capitalist Papers Protest Against Railway Staff's Action Branxton
A CROWDED meeting of members of the Rothbury Miners' Lodge to-day decided to apply the "black" ban to the police and to all persons associated with the working of the colliery by blacklegs, whether within or without the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threw Himself in Front of Tram Melbourne
FRANK TREATER laid down in Collins Street in front of a cable car, and refused to move when a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Show Is Here Again Opening Friday Many New Attractions
THE fourth Annual Motor Show, opening at the Royal Agricultural Grounds on Friday next, will be representative of the growing interest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Hurt by Motor Car Melbourne
Following a collision between two care in Swanston Street to-day. Mrs. Mary Slocomb, 60, was taken to hospital suffering a fractured pelvis and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Knocked Off His Tram Guard Assaulted Young Man Gets Gaol
On the evening of January 3, Clifford Williams, 26, boarded a Canterbury-bound tram at Rozelle Junction, with two other young men…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dragged Under Moving Tram Newsboy's Narrow Escape Had His Worries
When Bernard Curry, newsboy, fell from a moving tram in the city last night, and narrowly missed death, he was not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor 'Buses Across Desert Young New Zealander's Success in Palestine
Discharged at his own request in Beirut at the end of the war, Norman Nairn, a New Zealand soldier, set to work in the motor business, and later…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Almost Like a Fairy Tale Wonderful Growth of Motor Industry
A wonderful illustration of the progress of the motor industry will be provided by Australia's greatest exposition of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Policeman Was Looking Three Months for Hitting Tram Conductor
Clifford Williams was sentenced to three months' hard labor, at Balmain Court yesterday, for having assaulted a tram…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Local Government. Tyres Versus Roads. the Chief Enemy of the Road
The wheel travelling along the road cushioned with its pneumatic tyre, or Jolting more harshly with an outer rim of solid rubber or steel—here is a practical…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tar on the Roads
Following protests by a number of motorists that their vehicles have been badly spattered by tar on a number of city streets during the recent hot…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →COLLISION On Dangerous Bridge
The overhead bridge near Meadow-bank railway station is a dangerous spot at all times, as it must he approached at a right-angled turn from each side…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Road Work
The longest length of work yet let by the Main Roads Board in one contract, says the N.R.M.A., is for the formation and draining of ever nine miles…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Western Road in Penrith
Motorists will be interested to learn, says the N.R.M.A., that the dangerously bad state of the main western road through Penrith is likely to become it…
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