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Railways, roads & transport, 1930

13,038 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

The Motor World N.R.M.A. NOTES

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

Complaints to the N.R.M.A. Technical Department by members regarding the prices charged for repaird by garages have frequently resulted in a…

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Tyres or Air Which Carries the Weight of a Motor Car?

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

Perhaps it is not generally realised that pneumatic tyres do not carry any load; it is the air in them that carries the load, the tyres merely being "air…

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Good Resolutions Series That Motorists Should Adopt for the New Year

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 13

The acting-chairman of the N. R. M. A. Board of Management (Mr.G. N. king) suggests that motorists should form—and apply —the following New Year driving…

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New Motor Spirit Sugar Fuel More Efficient Than Petrol

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

Claimed to be more powerful and economical than ordinary petrol, a now motor spirit distilled from sugarcane has been prepared by Brai[?] suger…

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Commanding the Motorist's Interest

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

The Nash twin-ignition Eight, seven-passenger Sedan, which is about to be exhibited at the M.T.A. motor show in Sydney and at the showrooms of the N.S.W. distributors, Willsford, Ltd., Phillip-street, Sydney…

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Problems of the Motorist An Eventful Trip to the Murrumbidgee in a Relic of the Past Decade the "Joys" of Motoring

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

The holiday season with thousands of motorists setting out on tours to nil parts or the country reminds the water of a holiday he spent a few years ago when…

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Motors and Motoring Clear Glass Hints on Cleaning Car Windows and Windscreens

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

The glass panels of windscreens or doors can be cleaned very effectively if a small quantity of paraffin bo added to the cleaning water. A simple method…

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Touring Motorists Melbourne Visitor Welcomed In Sydney

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

About 110 persons set out in thirty motor cars from Melbourne for Sydney, where they arrived last Saturday. They were all members of the Melbourne…

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High Average Speed The Efficiency of the Present Day Motor Car

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

A few yearn back only the high-powered sports model car was capable of maintaining an average road speed of sixty miles an hour, but nowadays, many…

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State Railways Proposals for Greatly Improved Services

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 12

The Chief Railway Commissioner for Now South Wales (Mr. Cleary) stated that the Commissioners were considering the use of buses in conjunction with…

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Motor Mishaps Many Persons Killed in the City and Country

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

Motoring accidents in different parts of New South Wales exacted a heavy toll of life during the post week. Thera Irene May Kerr, a young girl,…

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Speed Racing T. Benstead Wins Motor Cycle Championship

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 13

Prominent motorists and motor cyclists competed at the New Year championship meeting at Penrith on Wednesday. In the three miles handicap for cars…

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Modern Cars Joys of Motoring Within Reach of Every Family

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 13

The motor car to-day costs very much less than it did a few year age, despite the fact that the present-day car is far more efficlent durable and dependable,…

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Motor Springs Cause Car Body to Sag on the Side

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 8

"Motorist" [?] that one of the back springs on his Bulck car has lost its temper, causing the boys to sug on that side. He desires to know whether he cun get this…

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New Section Tramway Change

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 6

THE Tramway Department was made an alteration in the second section on the La Perouse line. The section at present ends at High…

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Motor Show. Next Week's Display. Exhibits Worth £1,000,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 19

On Friday one of the greatest motor shows yet held in Australia will be opened at the Agricultural Ground, Sydney, when cars, motor commercial vehicles, motor cycles,…

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Motor Boating. St. George M.b.c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 20

In addition to other motor boating fixtures this afternoon, the St. George Motor Boat Club wi11 decide three races at Kogarah Bay, Sans Souci. The hydroplanes will decide a six miles handicap for…

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Railwaymen's Wages. Application for Restraining Order. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 19

Judge Lukin dealt with a Chamber application to-day by the Amalgamated Engineering Union for an order nisi under section 20 of the Arbitration Act to restrain the State…

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Little Girl Killed. Crushed by Motor Lorry. in Charge of Her Father. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 16

Mary Jane Lonsdale, 3, was crushed between a telegraph pole and a motor lorry on Wallsend-road, Cardiff, this afternoon, and was killed instantly…

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Railway Mishap

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 17

Mail trains travelling on the Blue Mountains line met with slight delays early yesterday morning owing to the breakdown of an engine attached to a goods train between Emu Plains and…

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