Arctic Weather Hits U.S.A. Coldest in 50 YEARS Snowfalls Block Roads New York
AFTER 22 days of almost continuous zero weather over the eastern portion of the country, an intensification of the cold…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1936
10,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250
The Truth About Motors and Motoring Let There Be Light Alarming Increase Of Night Accidents In U.S.A. Experiments Should Benefit Us
"TRUTH" has frequently advocated a thorough investigation by the traffic authorities into the question of defective lighting of highways, particularly in the metropolitan area. It is to be hoped that the Commissioner for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MERCEDES-BENZ Diesel Engined Motor Truck
ONE of the most outstanding motor vehicles imported to Australia is the new Mercedes-Benz six cylinder truck chassis recently landed by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway Excursions
ADVICE has bern received from the Department of Railways that, during the last week of February, excursion trains will be run from and to the country…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor Boats When Wash Spelt Win or Defeat
Fast times, speed spurts and remarkably close finishes featured speedboat club events held yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Fell From Tram
When he fell from a tram near Suspension Bridge, Northbridge, late last night, W. J. Nash, 54, of West- street, North Sydney, suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foot Is Severed Mr. Jack Clough in Motor Collision
Mr. Jack Clough, of Long-street, South Strathfield, well-known in boxing circles, had his left foot amputated at Western Suburbs Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Ride On A Scenic Railway
WE had often read advertisements re Katoomba's Scenic Railway, so decided to patronise it next time we visited there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge to Bridge Race. Windsor
The Upper Hawkesbury Motor Boat Club held its third annual "Bridge to Bridge" race. 75 miles, on the Hawkesbury River to-day. The race is the longest speedboat event in the Southern Hemisphere…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Theft on Train. Wollongong
At the police court, W. J. Dunn was [?] £3 and ordered to pay £2/3/5 compensation for malicious damage to goods, the property of the Railways Commissioner; and he was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Killed in Road Race
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Near the finish of a road race in East Malvern yesterday, David Newlands, 28, of East Malvern, a member of Carnegie…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrong Train Woman Jumps Out
When Mrs. L. R. Foster (29), of Myall-street, Casula, boarded a train at Lidcombe last Monday, she suddenly discovered that she was in the wrong train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tumut-canberra Road. Tumut
A deputation comprising representatives of various public bodies, and banking and commercial interests, waited upon Mr. T. R. Collins, M.P., to urge the reopening and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Archbishop Wand. Car Strikes Bridge. Brisbane
The car in which the Archbishop of Brisbane (Dr. Wand), accompanied by Mrs. Wand and Miss Wand, was travelling yesterday, crashed through the railing of a bridge at the junction…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Vital Develop Roads for Progress Taxation Issue (To The Editor of "The Sun")
THE remark by a visitor that "there is nothing which will develop Australia better than roads and fast transportation,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Toll of the Road Eleven Hurt In Capsize Party Of Soldiers
ELEVEN members belonging to the advance party of the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, travelling from Orange to Goulburn, where they were to have attended the Fourth Cavalry Brigade camp, were injured near Roslyn, about 12 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →RAIL-MOTOR Liverpool proposal
Will a rail-motor soon link Hammondville with Liverpool? Liverpool Progress Association proposes to enlist the co-operation of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Improvements Urged. Wingham
The Railway Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan), replying to a deputation headed by the Mayor (Alderman E. L. R. Keech), promised to have electric light installed at the platform…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lapse of Memory. Motorist's Experience. Liverpool
A resident of Ingleburn purchased a new car during last week, and conveyed his family to the Liverpool Show on Saturday. After the show concluded his wife and family sat in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Industry. America's Big Output. Reo President's Visit
Mr. E. G. Poxson, president of the Reo Sales Corporation, and special export representative of the Reo Automobile factory, who arrived by the Maunganui on Saturday for…
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