The Railways Proposed Boycott by Lithgow Industrialists
A number of industrial organisations at Lithgow, including the Railwaymen's Defence Association, several miners' lodges, and the steelworks colliery lodges…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
8,292 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250
Making the World a Parish "I look upon all the World as my Parish."—A famous saying of John Wesley. Ii.—the Motor Car
NOT many months after the notable conversion on 24th May, 1738, John Wesley began to travel through England preaching the Gospel of God's grace to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Clerk's Lapse. Perth
Hugh Turner, aged 43 years, a goods clerk employed at the Northam railway station, pleaded guilty at Northam yesterday, and was committed for sentence, on a charge of having,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Cycling. Wentworth Oval
A Wilkinson notified the management of Wentworth Oval Speedway yesterday that he would be unable to appear at to night's meeting so the request of Dicky Case the Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Country News. Motor Car Somersaults Down Hill. Murwillumbah
With a crash which could be heard in the town, a motor car somersaulted 40ft down the hillside below Bent-street at 11 o'clock last night. The occupant, Mr. William Boswell…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Boating. To-day's Racing
A number of marine motoring organisations, including the two metropolitan clubs the Royal Motor Yacht Club of New South Wales and the Australian Motor Yacht Squadron, will resume racing this…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motoring. Parts Association
A new organisation the Australian Automotive Distributors' Parts Association has been formed in Sydney, among its objects being the stabilisation of the trade in automobile parts. Representaives…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Two Hurt Motor Cycle Overturned
A youth and a boy were injured this afternoon in Showground-road, Castle Hill, when a motor-cycle and side-car, in which they were riding,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tram Fare Increase
The Transport Trust has decided to increase tram fares charged to students, other than school pupils, who are under 18 years of age. An…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£88,000 a Year Tramways Shorter Week
The cost of the reversion to the 44- hours week of men working under Federal awards, in the tramways, is estimated at £88,000 a year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gossip a Big Australian--Man Who Tapped a Gusher--When the World Was Wide--Minnie Golf to Order--Spending £351 in Tram-Fares--Searches for Gold at 86 Years of Age King of Schnapper Island--Frank Molloy from Tasmania--One-legged Proof Reader--Jimmy's Bus--Farm-girl in Man's Clothes Horses His Hobby
FEW men in the racing same can boast of a better record of attendance at race meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motoring Performance Improvement No. 4
THE subject of fuel consumption amounts to a fetish with some motorists. Others do not care two straws whether their car does 15 or 25 m.p. gallon. While it must be admitted that those faddists in the first class are straining at a gnat in their endeavors to cheapen motoring by saving a few pence a gallon or attempting to secure stunt mileages, yet there…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Railways Not Always Dear
"WHEN primary producers are down to a bedrock market, there's the reason why they can't use the railways," says "Mint."…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Is Railway Dept. Gambling with Safety?
SIX months ago (June 28, 1930), "Smith's" condemned the dangerous haste to open tho Kyogle-South-Brisbane railway before the line was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →He'd Fly Over Hell in a Celluloid Bus Things About Young Guy Menzies That You Haven't Read Yet First Outstanding Feat of Generation of Flyers That Grew Up After War Taking the Lid Off the Mystery of Tasman Flyer's Nom-de-speed Concealed His Identity on Motor-Cycle Under Name of "Don McKay"
AUSTRALIAN aviation knows nothing so tight lipped as the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Vic. Cabinet and Railway Problem Melbourne
THE State Cabinet to-day gave consideration to the serious decrease in the railway revenue…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Men Protest at Wages Tax
The following resolutions in regard to the 1 in the £1 wages tax were carried at recent branch meetings of the A.R.U.:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dodged the Motors Not So Many Victims This Year As Last
NEARLY 8000 people were victims of motor accidents during 1930, 358 being killed and 7203 injured; but the figures were fewer than those of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Tram Signals
Interior bell communication cords will be workable on the North Bondi, Bronte, and Bondi Junction-Coogee lines on Monday, and passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →30Cwt. Trucks on Show New Studebakers Have 70 h.p. Motor
ADVANCE chassis of the new Studebaker 1½ ton truck are on display in the showrooms of Studebaker (Sydney), Ltd., in Yurong St.,…
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