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Railways, roads & transport, 1930

13,038 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 250

Carry More Cars Beat Trams Absurd Crusade

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 9

ONE [?] that appears to be [?] in the crusade against the [?] car in the [?] to the [?]…

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Remove the Hoardings. Council Offers to Recoup Railway Loss

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 17

Concerning a request by Ryde Council to the Railway Commissioners, asking if the Commissioners would remove hoardings from railway stations in the municipality, the…

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Motorist in Court. On Three Grave Charges. FORBES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

Leonard Kail Bryant, 23 years, was to-day charged with having driven a car without a license, with having driven in a manner dangerous to the public, and with having…

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St. Leonards-eastwood Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

Ryde Council has decided to co-operate with the Lane Cove Council in protesting to the Government over the delay in commencing the railway from Eastwood to St. Leonards…

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B.s.a. Motor Cycle Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 18

A handicap acceleration test will be held by the B.S.A. Motor Cycle Club on Saturday afternoon, and will be preceded by time trials, on which the handicaps will be based. A special will be…

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Motor Show. Concluding Days

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

Only two more days remain for the seventh motor show, which concludes at the Agricultural Ground to-morrow evening. There will be two sessions to-day, at 2.30 and 7.30…

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EUROPE v. U.S.A. Motor Markets Make For War

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

BRUSSELS, Dec. 6.—This week the international Federation of Automobile Manufacturers in Europe is meeting here with a view to limiting the…

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Heroism of S.M. in £15,000. Railway Blaze Risked Life Amazing Spread of Flames Cash Saved Toowoomba

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 14

A fire at the Dolby Railway Station last night resulted in damage estimated at £15.000. Senior Station Master A. E. Maxwell…

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Motoring Cars - Cycles - Lorries - Launches Rich Mixtures Motor Show

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 16

Ranged in Welt-arranged disorder Where each light will limn a curve. Phaetons, roadsters, coupes, four-doors Post so that you may observe…

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Foot Caught Shocking Injury Man's Agony Between Lorry & Tram

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

In trying to leap from a skidding lorry in King-street, St. Peters, to-day, a man was trapped between the lorry and the…

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Added Motor Interest Effect of Show

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

A feature of the Motor Show has been lite number of non-buyere and persons without cars who have viewed the many models, and the…

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Boy Injured by Motor Lorry

The Propeller · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

As a lad named Jack Murphy, aged 11 years, of Penshurst Street, Penshurst, walked from behind a motor 'bus in Forest Road, Penshurst, on…

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Motor Boat Club's Social

The Propeller · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

The Woronora River Motor Boat Club held a successful social evening last. Saturday night. The music was supplied by Bennett's Thistle…

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Motor Driver Fined

The Propeller · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

William Semple was proceeded against for driving a motor car in Gerrale Street, Cronulla, in a manner dangerous to the public…

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Tip for All Motorists

The Propeller · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 8

Remember that the rear wheels track a little closer to the inside of the curve than do the front ones. Failure to so observe your driving may resu[?] in…

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Hints to Motorists. Heat Worst Foe of Tyres

The Propeller · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 8

At the end of the hot weather, when the tyres have undergone their hardest season, the motorist who has given them proper attention will be…

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Motor Maxims

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 6

HERE are a few practical motoring maxims by the N.R.M.A. Safety Department:--RE completely master of your…

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Manslaughter Charge Against Motorist Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

On New Year's Day, a motor car and motor van collided in Chapel St., St. Kilda, with the result that Edward O'Brien. 21, and Audrey Tasker, a…

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Motor Lights on Pillion Girls' Legs!

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

When Ritchie Thomas Davidson (20), a mechanic's apprentice, riding a motor cycle with a girl on the pillion heard a motor behind him in…

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Do Motors Fill the Hospitals? Yes, They Say, in Sydney and London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

Sydney, like London, where four are killed and 190 injured every, day by cars, is blaming motorists for much of the…

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