Four Miles a Minute New Motor Car Speed Record Established
A new land speed record was established by the during English motorist, Captain Malcolm Campbell., at Daytona Beach, Florida, last week. The record…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
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Motors and Motoring Problems of the Motorist Ball and Roller Bearings
IN the last issue, the question of split bush bearings and their repair was discussed. Beatings of the unsplit bushing type are used very extensively in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Notes The Cry for "Fifty Per Cent, off Freights"
INCLUDED in a number of resolutions passed lately by a country chamber of Commerce was a request that the railway freights on fat stock, wool, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Race Australian Grand Prix to be Held Next Month
The next Australian Grand Prix road race for motor can will be held on the Phillip Island course, Westernport (Vic.) on 23rd March. It will again be a 200…
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An interstate teams' test race, in which three States were represented, was decided at the Wentworth Oval Speedway (Sydney) last Saturday night. The…
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ADDED Interest to Captain Malcolm Campbell's remarkable speed of 04.031 miles on hour on a small Austin car at Daytona, is that Mr. Percy Larke…
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The "Fanner and Settler" will award a prise of 5/- weekly to the subscriber who sends in the best motor hint in any one week. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Swept From Tram
Edward Dawson, need 28 yonrs, of Balfour-street. Marrickville, was colleting tares on a tram bound for Canterbury yesterday when he was swept Irom ther footboard by a passing…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Railway Losses. Western Australian Lines. PERTH
For the quarter ended December 31 the State railways showed a loss of £87,871, compared with a lass of £64,375 for the corresponding period a year ago. For the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Transport. Border Car Traffic. ALBURY
The proprietors of commercial motor vehicles carrying goods from New South Wale into [?]toria have been notified by the police at Wodonga that they are now…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →MOTORING. Annual Meeting. Royal Automobile Club
The Royal Automobile Club of Australia is the oldest motoring organisation in Australia, having been formed in 1903. It held its annual meeting on Thursday evening in the club house,…
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Attention is directed to the running of additional trams from Maroubra Bay to the Railway at 7.7. 7.37, and 8.7 a.m. on Sundays, and later trams from North Bondi to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Accidents. Girl Killed by Lorry. Driver Charged with Manslaughter
Gloria Williams, aged five years, of West-street, Darlinghurst, died yesterday from injuries received when she was struck by a motor lorry near her home…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Car Famine. Possibility in Australia. Melbourne
Mr. V. L. Stokoe, the managing director of Stokoe Motors, a large distributing organisation, to-day suggested the possibility of a motor famine in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Boating. Australian M.Y.S.
The Australian Motor Yacht Squadron will decids a programme of cruiser, speed boat, and outboard motor race on its course at Middle Harbour at 2.30 this afternoon Next Saturday the squadron…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Motor Taxes. Payment by Instalments
In England it is possible for motorists who prefer to avail themselves of the privilege to pay the taxation on their motor vehicles by instalments every three months. A section of…
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Captain Malcolm Campbell (centre) leaving England for Daytona Beach. On the left is Lord Howe, with Captain Campbell's daughter Jean, and on the right are Mrs. Campbell and Donald Campbell. The speed attained by Captain Campbell was 245.73 miles an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Motorist Acquitted Manslaughter Charge
James Stuart Osborne Throsby was acquitted at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions on a charge of having feloniously slain Thomas Christopher at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Hurt Tram and Van Smash
In a collision between a tram and a motor furniture van at the corner of Belmore-road and Silver-street, Randwick, this morning, a passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sea of Sand Rock Drawings of Libya Motor Cars Conquer Desert Following Old Slave Caravan Routes
Crude rock drawings, not dissimilar from those found in caves round Sydney, were discovered by an expedition which recently explored the Libyan Desert, south-west from Cairo. In his second article describing the adventure, Major…
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