Famous Motorists Return to Sydney
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 18
Mr. Norman Smith (left) and Mr. D. J. Harkness, on board the Maunganui yesterday. They are holding a floral model of the car in which they broke the world's I 0-mile record in New Zealand…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 17
Prank Winter, a motor driver, was committed for trial from the Hunter's Hill Court yesterday on a charge of having, on the Great North-road, Gladesville, on November 23, by…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Accidents. Crushed by Car. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 16
Eric Keech, 19, of Pender-street, Preston, was killed, and Hazel Bryant, 18, of Raglanstreet, Preston, had a thigh fractured through being crushed by a motor car. Keech and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"STAGGERED" Just a Few Trams MELBOURNE
The Sun · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 10
Twenty tramway blacksmiths are in danger of losing their jobs because of retrenchment. To prevent this increase in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£50,000 Penalty? Moss Vale-kembla Railway Completion Delayed
The Sun · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 10
It was stated to-day, on behalf of Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd., that no action had been taken by tho company to obtain compensation for the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →No Motors? Year's Embargo Plan Melbourne
The Sun · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 10
An announcement that the Minister for Customs (Mr. Fenton) had called upon motor trade organisations in New South Wales to state reasons…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Round Australia on Motor Cycle Youths Hanker to Meet Death Adders!
Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 4
WE heard from an over[?]lander that in some wild parts your sleeping partners are death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorists, Beware of Rats
Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 2
TAMWORTH, Tuesday. -- Because rats built a nest on top of the engine while in a garage, the carburettor of a car owned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Locked in City Woods! New Game for Jaded Motorists
Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 5
A new pastime has been invented for jaded citizens. The idea is simple. You drive into Centennial Park a minute or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cars Help Against Tetanus Science is Beating Dread Germs
Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 7
The menace of tetanus, against which doctors at South Sydney Hospital are fighting for the life of Aubrey Simons, of Mascot, owes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →They Were the Bad Old Days for Motorists Fined For Speeding at Eight Miles an Hour
Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 7
Don't give us the "good old days" again. That's what motorists would have said had they heard Mr. C. O. Sherwood, 30 years N.S.W. manager…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victoria Road
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 6
Hunter's Hill Council has approved the suggestion by the Main Roads Board that the portion of the Great Northern-road withinthe municipality should be renamed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Killed by Train. Katoomba
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 12
John Cullen, 75. milk vendor, of Medlow Bath, was killed when the passenger train from Mount Victoria to Sydney knocked him down as he was crossing the line at Meldow…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Train Nearly Wrecked at Regent's Park
Daily Pictorial · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 2
A heap of stones on the line at Regent's Park nearly wrecked the Bankstown-Lidcombe motor train on Tuesday night. Police have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Neck Broken in Fall From Train
The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 5
Bruce Pearson, 10, of Como, had his neck broken when he fell from a moving train near Oakley railway station last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Thieves on Taverner's Hill
Evening News · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 12
COMPLAINTS that fruit and vegetables have been stolen from motor lorries on Parramatta-road on their way to the markets have been so numerous that one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Tell Us" Says North Shore Bridge Plans
Evening News · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 5
WE want to be taken into their confidence" said the mayor of North Sydney Ald. H. L Primrose when questioned by a "News" man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy's Fall From Train. Neck Probably Fractured
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 11
A ten-year-old boy named Bruce Pearson, of Como, fell from a moving train at Oatley Station yesterday, and later was admitted to the district hospital. It is thought that both…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Western-Road Garage Built Without Approval
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 14
When he commenced operations on his garage on the Western-road early in 1928, A. H. Jones submitted plans and specifications which were approved by…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"Pay It Themselves" Parramatta Road Kerbing
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 19
Having constructed kerbing and glu[?]ering in Parramatta-road, the Main Roads Board is endeavouring to obtain £131 from Holroyd Council—this sum…
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