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Railways, roads & transport, 1933

8,894 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Motoring Imports of Chassis. Inadequate for Normal Needs

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

Statistics which have been complied by one of the principal tyre manufacturing companies in Australia reveal an unusual condition with regard to the present ratio of imports of new…

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Letters Loading of Motor Cycles. to the Editor of the Herald

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

Sir,—In reply to Mr. Dunn's letter in the "Herald" on the 30th ultimo, I wish to state that the contents of same prove that Mr. Dunn is endeavouring to cloak the issue, by…

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Motor Engineering. Value of Research Work

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

Car manufacturers throughout the world carry out persistent research in connection with an almost infinite number of problems connected with engineering practice. There…

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The Wanganella. New British Motorship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 8

When the British companies engaged in the trans-Tasman passenger trade between Australia and New Zealand decided recently to take drastic steps to meet the growing…

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Motor Accidents. New British Scheme to Lessen Danger. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 9

As a sequel to conferences between the Ministry of Transport and various road-users' organisations, a new scheme has been evolved whereby it is hoped eventually to lessen the…

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All Lines Tram Passes For Diggers

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 11

The Returned Soldiers' League has been informed that the free tram passes recently issued to incapacitated returned soldiers may be used…

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Fusillade Of Bullets Into Motor Car Man with Rifle at Gate Two in Car and Passerby Wounded

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 13

WHEN a man, believed to be temporarily demented, poured a fusillade of bullets into a motor car in Fewing-street, Clovelly, at 8.10 a.m. today, the occupants of the car--the man's brother and sister…

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Fired on Motor Car

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 11

Two people wounded by rifle fire and man found with throat cut at Clovelly. Page 13…

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Many Jobs Order For New Trams

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 15

A large number of men will receive employment as the result of the Government's order for 200 new…

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Fell From Motor Lorry

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 1

After, falling from a motor lorry at Collaroy last night, Neville Hardy, 8, of William Edward Street, Longueville, was admitted to Royal North…

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Miserable Railway Conditions Retiring on Pittance After Lifetime in Service Veterans Go

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 6

"AFTER a lifetime in the service I think a man is entitled to more than a miserable one-sixtieth of his salary on…

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New Motorship Wanganella Is a Wonder She Is the Best Vessel of Her Type Afloat Safety Devices Every Provision Made for Passengers and Cargo

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 8

THE motorship Wanganella, Huddart, Parker's latest acquisition, which arrived from Belfast on Saturday, after a…

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Tramway Water Polo

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 3

In the Tramway water polo competition. Rushcutter Bay is lending with [?] points, then coming Roselle. S. Waverley 6. Dowling Street 4 and Ditimo 2…

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Motor Cyclists Hurt Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 5

[?] steelworks. Ronald Hamilton and James Meikel, travelling on a motor cycle, collided with a cyclist…

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200 New Tram Cars Green and Cream Color Scheme

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 5

The Commissioner for Tramways, Mr. S. A. Maddocks, announced last night that the tender of the Clyde Engineering Co…

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Motorist Escapes Drowning' Dazed by a Fall Into Drain

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 5

When his car crashed into a concrete drain in Clarke Street, North Sydney, during last night's storm, David Craig was lucky not to be…

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Green and Cream Trams

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 4

Sydney's 200 new tram-cars, painted green and cream, are to be Built by the Clyde Engineering Co., Ltd. The contract price for the…

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Our £140,000,000 Railways

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 4

CYNICS have asserted that civil servants are so called because they are seldom civil and not often servants. This is not true in New South Wales, where even tax collectors are, as far as their rigid regulations allow, amiable and…

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Dog Sees City by Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 5

SYDNEY has a dog-tourist. He is a large light-colored Airedale terrier, who rides over all Sydney on the trams, showing…

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Fatal Fall From Train

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 7

Mrs. Alice Perritt (44), Bathurst Road, Springwood, who fell from a speeding electric train yesterday between Dulwich Hill and Marrickville,…

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