Run Down by Train. Lithgow
Mr. William Harrison, an old-age pensioner, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday after having been run down by a train near the site of the old blast furnace. Shortly after…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
8,292 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 250
Royal Automobile Club. Road Season
The annual general meeting of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia will be held at the clubhouse, 89 Macquarie-street, Circular Quay, on Thursday, February 12, at 8…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old Man Injured Knocked Down by Train
Francis' Connor, aged 75 years, of Canley Vale, was seriously injured on Monday when he was knocked down by an electric train at the Strathfield…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To Break Away? Mulgoa - Road Residents
If Cabra-Vale Council can't repair Mulgoa-road between Liverpool and Bonnyrigg, local residents will endeavour to bring that portion of the road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Man in the Street Middle Harbor Bridge
I do not agree with Dr. Arthur, M.L.A., that a selected work of bridge building should be one from Beauty Point, in Mosman, to Seaforth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →200 Are Paid Off Harbor Bridge is Nearing Completion
WITH the end of construction of the Harbor Bridge in sight, one shift has been cut out in the workshops of Dorman, Long, Ltd. Nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bullet Hit His Pipe Nasty Moment For Passenger in Train
WHILE Harold Coy, of Crystal St., Petersham, was sitting in a train between Granville and Clyde last night his pipe was knocked from his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Railway Losses. Depression and Motor Competition. GOULBURN
Figures made avallible by the Railway Department show a falling-off in revenue last year of £21,812 compared with the returns for the previous 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sydney to Tenterfield by Road N.R.M A. Reports Easy Going on Great Northern Highway
MOTORING conditions between Sydney and Tenterfield. along the Great Northern Highway, are described to-day by the N.E.M.A Touring Department, which reports the surface generally good. The road is formed throughout and occasions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fourth Time Intoxicated Motorist Disqualified for Three Years
Three similar convictions were already recorded against him when Edward Charles Carroll, at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, pleaded guilty, to a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labor Bureau Shopkeepers Complain "Blueys and Tramps"
"Since the advent of the Labor Bureau in this building, the conditions have become so impossible, from a business point of view, that without exception we have to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motors Red Roll in U.S.A. CHICAGO
THE USA. death roll from motor accidents in 32 Slates in 1930 was equivalent to the wiping out of a small city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coincidence Of Motor Tragedies
THE Parramatta District Coroner. Mr H. Richardson Clark, returned verdicts of accidental death Id two similar cases of motor cycle accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Mid-day Concessions On Railways
REPLYING to a suggestion from Lidcombe council that the railways might receive additional business if fares on the main suburban line were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Passengers Listen In
BORED. tired railway passengers in England now nave radio to alienate long Journeys. The L N.E.R Leeds express has had radio tostalled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Traction Indispensable to the Merchant Shale Oil Motor Fuel
When a Shale Oil producer has located his scam of shale, sunk his shaft or driven his drive, spent thousands of pounds sterling on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Political Control Of Railway Service. Commissioners May Be Rationed. Premier to Administer Department
Drastic action was taken by the Government yesterday to enable the Premier (Mr. Lang) to secure the services of two railway officials to assist in the preparation of a scheme for the creation of a Ministry of Transport…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →British Motor Trade. London, Jan. 13
A bulletin issued by the manufacturers' section of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders points out that the virtual collapse of the Australian market, which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Boating. Deepwater M. B. C.
Deepwater Motor Boat Club will decide a point-score contest over a distance of two miles,on its course at Upper Bankstown on Saturday afternoon, in two heats of two miles each. The first heat…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Cycling. Wentworth Speedway
Some or the best international riders will compete in both the Advanx Gold Helmet and the A grade scratch race at Wentworth Oval Speedway on Saturday evening. W. Sticpewich will return…
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