Hit by Motor Cycle
Knocked down by a motor cycle in Victoria Road, Gladesville, Yesterday, Robert Fy[?]e, 35. of the Salvation Army Home, Buckley Street, city,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1932
10,046 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 250
Bold Bid to Control All Railways Transport Parley on Monday Every State Is Concerned Clapp's Brief
On Monday next, at the Commonwealth Bank Building, the big conference initiated by the Bruce-Lyons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Slump Motor Imports
Figures supplied by the Australian Association of British Manufacturers indicate that motor imports into the Commonwealth have had a big…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Busmen Collect on Trams Even Conductors Gave Cash
Unemployed busmen took up collections from tram passengers yesterday in the Bondi district. Dressed in the uniforms they wore…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Help for the Motorist in Case of Fire
If the car catches fire through a leak from the carburetter and the careless use of a match or cigarette, turn the petrol supply off, switch on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Helmets for "Trammies" ?
TRAM CONDUCTORS have objected to their caps as they do not afford protection from the sun. They have suggested an issue of helmets for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia's Roads Decay Butchering Motor Industry to Bolster Revenue
THE necessity of Australia holding her oversea markets for primary produce is greater than ever, and that can only be done by getting costs of production and transportation down to those ruling in other countries…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Brinsmead on Road to Recovery Does Not Remember His Awful Crash Singapore
The Australian Controller of Civil Aviation (Col. Brinsmead) left Bangkok to-day for Singapore by steamer, en route to Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press Killed in Motor Smash
James Meehan, 28, of Quay-street, Ultime, was killed outright last night, when a motor ear in which he was travelling crashed into a post…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Truth About Motor and Motoring Old Spanish Custom Where Long Trips are Serious One-day Hops
SOME Australians are better travellers than they are motorists, while others are better drivers than globe trotters. It's…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Truth About Motors Go-getter Got the Goat of the Llama of Tibet Dished in a Doubtful Deal Over "Devil Machine "
MOST people know something of the persistence of motor sales men and it is doubtful, therefore, if the "go-getter" who tried to sell a baby car to the Llama of Tibet will receive the sympathy that he is entitled to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Crashed on Girl Motor Cycle Leaps Velodrome Fence
LEAPING the fence at the Canterbury Velodrome last night, after a collision in the Pursuit race, a riderless motor cycle crashed among…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RAILWAYS Cannot Afford Govt. Control Problems for the Conference
With the appointment of a conference under the chairmanship of Mr. A. E. Heath, to inquire into railway economy of the Commonwealth and States, a truly man-size job has been allotted. The conference is asked to investigate the huge losses sustained by the systems of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Captain Pittendrigh's Aeroplane. Junee
Further details of the mishap to Captain Pittendrigh's aeroplane on Monday last show that while the aviator was flying from Cootamundra to Wagga early in the morning, his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rapid Road Construction
On Thursday last, the Bankstown Council employees, in eight hours, laid 33 chains of bituminous roadway, and threw open the new section to traffic. This is claimed to be a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Main Roads. Methods of Control
The Main Roads Board, in its report for the year ended June 30, 1931, states that the State Transport (Co-ordination) Act, 1931, and the Greater Sydney Bill propose different methods…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jap. Boat Could Not Pass Bridge
SHOULD the Japanese barquentine Shintoku Maru have been in urgent need of docking when she entered Sydney, she would have been unfortunate, for her masts are too high to pass under the Harbor Bridge!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →10/- Per Week Bridge Week Camp
The N.R.M.A. project for a modern motor camping ground in Sydney for the benefit of its country members during Harbour Bridge week at Easter is being pushed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goods Train Parramatta-Northmead Council's Request
In connection with the closing of the Parramatta-Rogans Hill railway line, Blacktown Council asked the Railway Commissioners to consider the running…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Moving Picture Show Naming the Bridge
"Bradman Bridge" as a name for the bridge has just been suggested. We understand (says'' Persnurkus Wireless, Inc.) that it has just been…
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