Car Victim Is Buried Was Railway Employee
After being delayed to allow his father, Mr. James McLean, senr., and two brothers, Hector and Jack, to come from Collarenebrl. the funeral…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1936
10,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 250
Home Service (Under the direction of the Home Service and Cookery Department of The Australian Gas Light Company.) Biscuits for Tennis or Bridge Teas, and a Hint for Bottling. chocolate Sandwich Biscuits
Ingredients: Ald. of flour, 2oz. of castor sugar, 4lb. of butter, the yolk of 1 egg. For the chocolate filling: 6oz. of soft…
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Entries are invited for an Auction Bridge tournament to be held shortly. No entrance fee is charged to members of the Institute, but members may enter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fall From Bridge. Young
Struck in the face by a crowbar with which he was levering a log on a bridge at Maimuru, Jack Hardman, 29, overbalanced and fell on to the jagged concrete base 7 feet below. His…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →£29,124,000 IN 10 Years on Roads Motor[?]' Contribution £18,418,113
The Mam Roads Board, in [?] 10 years' existence has spent £29,124,000. Of this sum, £12,960,994 came from motor taxa[?] £5,457,119 from the petrol tax…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After Taxi Smash Near The Bridge
Two taxis collided at the corner of Alfred Street and Pacific Highway, North Sydney, lust night. This taxi careered into a shop window in Alfred Street, and landed farther up Alfred Street minus a wheel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Water by Train Dams Dry Up in West Australia
PERTH, Thursday.--More than half a million gallons of water a week are being rushed by trains to townships in eastern, northern, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Toll of the Road Three Deaths Are Reported Several Accidents
Three more deaths as the result of road accidents occurred yesterday, while a youth was so badly injured in a smash at Bankstown last evening that his life despaired of. A number of children were also injured yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All Roads Lead to Third National Congress Against War (From the National Council of the Movement Against War and Fascism)
To-morrow, hundreds of visitors, in addition to the large number of delegates, will attend the Anti-War Congress at the Railway and Tramway Institute, Sydney. It will be an historic milestone on the pathway to unity in the struggle for peace. At…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →King's Body Moved London Last Journey Over Frost-mantled Road Mourners Watt From Daybreak in Bitter Wind Coffin On Gun Carriage ln Sad Procession LONDON
Despite a bitter north-east wind, mourners,many of whom had travelled from distant towns, including a party of Royal tenants from Balmoral, began to line the, road from sandringham to w[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motors and Motoring for Countrymen Ford's Big Extension in Two States £250,000 Development Schemes
STABILITY, maximum internal light and simplicity of outline haoe been achieved to a remarkable degree in the extensions to Ford Motor Company's premises at Geelong, which are now almost completed. The clean red brickwork of the base of the structure in a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motoring Commercial Vehicles. Mercedes-Benz Diesel Trucks
Compression-ignition and Diesel engines are now employed in a great number of commercial vehicles in Great Britain and on the Continent, and several well-known types have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pilfering From Motor Cars
In view of the widespread pilfering from cars and the frequency with which vehicles are stolen, the R.A.C.A. has reminded motorists of the necessity for taking every…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Motor Workers Oppose Federal Award
The attempt to introduce the Federal Award into the Queensland motor industries is rousing the opposition of the motor body building workers. This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The International I Struggle. French Railwaymen for Thaelmann
PARIS. Dec. 10 (by mail).—The amalgamation Congress of the Confederated and Unitary railwaymen trade unions of Prance adopted a resolution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring News New Standards Nine And Light 12 Smart Cars
Progressive improvement is apparent in the 1936 Standard Nine and Light Twelve, whose appearance on the N.S.W. market is now…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →St. Geo. Motor Boat Club
In sympathy with the Royal Family in the death of King George V., the St. George Motor Boat Club has cancelled all races for this Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring. Principles of Reversing
One of the driving operations that troubles the novice motorist most is that of reversing, generally because of his lack of confidence. The general…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Arrangements
The Acting-secretary for Railways, Mr. Nicholas, announced yesterday that, as Tuesday next will be observed as a day of mourning,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The World Of Motoring GOGGLES
WAL PHILLIPS, the English rider who scored a good win over "Bluey" Wilkinson in the fifth heat of the Test [?] last Saturday night, and also kept Huxley…
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