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Railways, roads & transport, 1933

8,894 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 250

AUTOMOTIVES Passenger and Utility Vehicles. Liability of Highway Authorities When a Motorist May Claim Damages

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 5

Many car owners must have had cause to complain from time to time of damage done to their cars as a result of the bad condition of the roads they have had to travel upon. The slackness of the responsible highway authority for their proper upkeep, the negligence of their workmen in failing to remove heaps of road-mending material or…

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Motoring and the Mathematician: An "ABC" for Studious Drivers

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 44

IN these enlightened days, when a great number of private motorists take a lively interest in the mechanisms of their own cars, the specifications of new models, and the details of…

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RAILWAYS. Surplus Employees. ABOUT 2000 May Retire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 11

About two months ago the Railway Commission decided that about 2000 surplus employees should be retired or retrenched from the railway service. This decision, however, was not…

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Motor Cycling. Mr. J. W. Harris at Wentworth Speedway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 16

Mr. J. W. Harris, who is well known to followers of dirt track motor cycle racing, has accepted the position of race manager at Wentworth Oval Speedway, Mr. T. E. Waters, who was the…

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Motoring. Maroubra Speedway Relay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 16

The Light Car Club of New South Wales Will decide what is termed a Brooklands team relay lace at Maroubra Speedway on January 26, in aid, of the children inmates of the Institution for the…

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Motor Boating. Anniversary Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 16

Entires close to-day for the six motor boat races, which will be decided at the Anniversary Day Regatta on January 26 These races will be held under the joint rules of the Royal Motor Yacht…

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Armed Man Thwarted by Tram Conductor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 11

An armed and masked man threatened a tram conductor at Redfern on Monday night, but fled when he met with unexpected resistance…

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Freights Bait Vic. Railway Plan Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 10

Anticipating the completion of the Yarrawonga-Oaklands (N.S.W.) border railway and its official handing over to the Victorian Railways, the…

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Tram Tints 200 In Cream and Green

The Sun · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 9

Green and cream will be the colors of Sydney's 200 new ' trams. The lower part of the bodies, up…

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Didn't Return Motorist Who Knocked Little Girl

The Sun · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 15

Detective Flint is searching for a motorist who, it is alleged, knocked down Melba Berthong, aged 12, in the Western-road, Pendle Hill,…

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Motor Car Registrat'n Charges

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

The Commissioner for Road Transport, in commenting on a Press statement by Mr. R. Fitzgerald, secretary of the Motor Van Owners'…

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Railway Bookings for New Year's Day

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

While the tramway returns for New Year's Day showed a remarkable falling-off--at least 50 per cent.--there was a slight increase in the…

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Motor Registration Scheme

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. is not at all pleased with the Government's scheme for the payment of motor registration by instalments, and intends to place its views…

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No Trace of Bandit Attempted Hold-up Trammie's Pluck

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 5

ALTHOUGH a long search was made, detectives who were informed of the alleged attempt to rob Edgar H. Collins, tram…

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Bus, or Trackless Tram?

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 6

Many bus proprietors believe that the Government's intention is to restrict services to a few routes pending trials with the…

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Motor Toll Roads. Conversion of Railway Tracks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 6

Mr. S. F. Edge, the well-known English authority on motoring matters, who is on a visit to Australia, recently expressed the opinion that in time many non-paying railway lines…

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Train Goes Through

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 10

When the Ghost Train thunders through at the Mayjair…

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Picturegram by Aeroplane Tremendous Interest in Condobolin

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 5

CONDOBOLIN, Wednesday.--Tremendous interest was aroused in Condobolin to-day by the arrival of "The Daily Telegraph's" aeroplane,…

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Road As Training Track

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 20

When Ald. Chipman complained to Mascot Council last night of the condition of one of the municipality's thoroughfares, which, he said, was…

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Fell From Train Woman Seriously Injured

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 11

Mrs. Alice Perritt, 44, of Bathurst- road, Springwood, was critically injured about 100 yards from the western side of the Marrickville railway…

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