Under the Bridge Miner's Clearance
The passing of a huge liner underneath the harbor bridge presents a perfect optical illusion, for, no matter from what perspective it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1931
8,292 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250
Bridge Art of Discarding Help to Defence
The average player's attitude towards discarding differs according to whether he is the declarer of a defender. When he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pup Used Weight to Stop a Train
PLAYING outside waverton Station at present is a terrier pup, which has the distinction of having slopped a 300ton train solely by the weight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How Some Bridge Workers Rise to Great Heights
"UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH--" and, in the metrical version of the average pedestrian, "Like an ant-hill in the sky," the little colony whose world is steel and whose music is the roaring forge and staccato pneumatic riveter creeps nearer "civilisation " Familiarity with great heights has bred supreme contempt for danger among bridge workmen, and the men above, sailing heavenwards on a giant girder, would be no more comfortable in an armchair at home or dangling their feet over a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peat's Ferry Bridge Scheme to Relieve Traffic Congestion and Unemployment
About 600 men will be thrown out of employment by the early completion of the main work on the Sydney Harbor bridge, and the Ironworkers' Union has…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Where Road, River, and Rail Meet on the Hawkesbury
One of the best known points on "the Rhine of Australia," not far from where the northern highway crosses…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cross-roads Busy Time in Garden Look Ahead Keeping the Housewife Happy
About this time of the year we come to the cross-roads of our gardening operations. The late summer and autumn flowering subjects require a good deal of attention as they are coming into…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Notes Damages Obtained from Motor Owner After Collision
These that follow newspaper reports of law cases crossing out of collisions at railway level crossings, wherein the responsibilities of road drivers have been legally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Road to Ruin Misfiring Cause of s Many Ills
Misfiring in a motor will cause costly damage if not corrected in time. EVERY time there is a "miss" the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Utopia Not Yet Socialism on Wrong Economic Road LONDON
"MANY of Australia's ills are due to the adoption of Socialistic economics." This opinion was expressed by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heard by the Way Looking for Oil—"Traitor in the Camp"—Hospital Patients' Fees—Railway Water—Latest Relief Grant, etc. In Hotel on
A [?]h [?] Coart on Monday Joseph Keegan pleded gainy to [?] charge of being round on the ple[?] of the Hotel federal, Penrith, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Capsize in Motor-cycle Trial
It was indeed a "trial".—A capsize during the Birmingham Motor Cycle Club's trial over a 40-milles gruelling course. The best of England's competition riders took part in the event, which held to find the champion solo end sidecar riders…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Injured in Smash Motor Cycle Hits Pedestrian
WALKING along Joscph-st. Lidcombe, shortly after leaving work at the Potts Hill pumping station, late last night, Oswald Wilson, 31, coal trimmer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambs for Market Railway Commissioners Willing to Provide Fast Trains
In response to a request by the Graziers' Association, the N.S.W. Railway Commissioners have decided to run a special train from the north-west for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Speed Carnival Motor Car and Motor Cycle Championships
Two championship events, one for cars and one for motor cycles under 500-co., were decided at Penrith Speedway during the vacation period. They were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motors and Motoring 'Problems of the motorist
MANY farmers who have just completed their harvesting will now be contemplating a holiday. Unfortunately, a number will not be able to afford an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For Motor Cyclists a Useful Booklet that Should be in Their Library
The Vacuum oil Company has issued a booklet entitled "Getting the Best out of Your Motor-cycle," when has been complied for the benefit of motor-cyclists…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Car Sales Huge Falling Off in the United States
The failing off in sales of new cars throughout New South Wales is a reflex, in a lesser degree, of what is happening in other parts of the world. For…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Traffic Drastic Alterations in English Regulations
The most revolutionary change in motoring in England came inte operation on New Year's Day, when laws that have been in operation since 1803 came to an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Speed Campbell Hopes to Attain Four Miles a Minute
Captain Malcolm Campbell, the English speed motorist, states that he hopes to attain a speed of more than four miles a minute when he attacks, at Daytona…
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