Australia Day Excursion Train Arrangements
In connection with the celebration of Australia Day, the Railway Department announces excursion fares and a number of special trains to and from the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1934
9,505 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250
Jump From Train. Girl Severely Injured
An 11-year-old girl was severely injured, but had a remarkable escape from death, when she jumped from an electric train travelling at high speed as it was passing through…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Road Dangers One Headlight Menace
"The motorist who uses the roads at night with only one headlight of his car burning, is a very grave menace," declared Mr. J. C. Watson, president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Will Not Meet Repairs to Road
Practically the only user of Wharf Road Leichhardt, the Public Works Department transports material over it to Broughton Hall and Callan Park…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Frantic Leap From Train Girl Is Seriously Injurfed
Jumping from an electric train as it sped at over 30 miles an hour through Carlton station yesterday, Elsie Short, aged 11, of English Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Popular Trips Road Conditions In 70- Mile Radius
Motoring conditions along roads leading to the various popular tourist resorts within a 70- mile radius of Sydney are described to- day by the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Two Hurt in Train Smashes Little Girl Hurled Yards Along Platform Fettler's Luck
A RAILWAY fettler at Burwood, and a little girl at Carlton, had most remarkable escapes from death yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Car and Motor-Cycle Canley Vale Smash
A motor cyclist had a narrow escape from serious injury when he collided with a car on the Liverpool-road on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Combined Protest "Motorists' Week"
The date for "Motorists' Week" throughout Australia, as a protest against the excessive petrol taxation, has been fixed at from March 9 to March 16…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →F.C.T. MOTORS Registration Need Not be Effected in N.S.W.
WHEN It wan brought under the notice of the National Roads and Motorists' Association that owners of motor vehicles that were registered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Dangerous Habit Impatient Motorists Menace Pedestrians
OF interest to country motorists contemplating a trip to Sydney is the N.R.M.A. warning of the dangerous habit of motorists moving slowly forward when…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motors and Motoring Personalities Prominent Men Among the Motor Traders
MEMBERS of the Motor Traders' Association will hold their annual meeting and dinner in Sydney on 23rd instant. Some of the most distinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motoring Memos
PATROL headquarters of the N.R.M.A. are now in N.R.M.A. House, Spring-street, Sydney, where there is also now a well-equipped workshop, and ample…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →PRODUCTION Manufacture of Motor Vehicles has Increased in England
IN 1907 only 13,000 motor vehicles were produced in Great Britain, in 1933 the total was 95,000; in 1930 it had risen to 236,528 and in 1932 it had dropped…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Great Achievement Progress of the British Motor Industry
THE condition in which the British motor industry found itself at the conclusion of the great war is too well known to require recapitulation, says…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A 1934 FORECAST Part Rubber will Play in Motor Construction
THAT 150-lb. of rubber will be used in every medium-sized new motor car told during 1934 is the prediction of Mr. C. C. Cross, sales director of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Annual Meeting New South Wales Motor Traders' Association
THE annual meeting of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales will be held on 23rd instant, Country dealers will meet at 9.30 on the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor Sport and Motoring C. Mitchell Beats Stevenson But "Tiger" Has His Revenge
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN Clem Mitchell twisted the tail of the "Tiger" on Saturday night at the Speedway Royale (Syd.). And in the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →New Federal Motorships
THE new cargo-carrying motorships now under construction for the Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., for the Australian trade will be named "Dorset" and "Durham." The gross tonnage will be 11,000, deadweight 21,300 tons, and length 479 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycling. Stevenson to Meet Mitchell
English champion, H. M. Stevenson who now holds the main records for the Speedway Royal, will meet Clem Mitchell, the South Australian champion in the big match at the Showground…
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