"Dangerous" Taking Horses to Train at Warwick Farm
"It is positively dangerous for high spirited horses to cross the overhead bridge on their way to Warwick Farm," declared Alderman Ashcroft at Liverpool…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1937
9,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250
Commissioner Urges Care Increase in Road Accidents
SUPPLEMENTING his comments yesterday on the road accident figures for 1936, which disclosed that the death roll had increased by 16…
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Central District Ambulance officers had to overcome unusual difficulties before they could take a seriously injured 12-year-old boy to hospital yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Scheme Road Racing Circuit FOR 150th. ANNIVERSARY
A PROPOSAL to link Penrith Speedway With a read-racirig circuit which will be completed in time far the 150th anniversary…
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COMMENTING upon the large increase in the number of deaths from road accidents during the past year, the Police Prosecutor, Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Racehorses From Brisbane Six And A Pony To Train In Sydney
Nine racehorses and a pony arrived to-day from Queensland on the Kanimbla. High Speech, Mr. Rivoli, Ourimbah,…
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Mr. Arnold, S.M., at the Newtown Police Court yesterday, said that pilfering from railway trucks was alarmingly rife, and was costing the Railway Department thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →British Cruiser Passes Beneath the Bridge — Australia Trades with East — Swimming Carnival
The British cruiser Danae arrived at Sydney yesterday on her way to join the China Squadron. Before berthing at Circular Quay, the Danae made a short cruise about the harbour, passing beneath the Harbour Bridge. Jack Tars on the British cruiser Danae, after the bustle of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Big Speeds on Old Roads End in Death "Progress Out of Balance" Auckland (N.z.), Wed
"THERE is a lag in the construction of roads designed to ensure the safe use of high-speed vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rowing North Shore Favored on Form to Win State Title Crews Not Allowed to Train on Nepean
THE four crews competing in the N.S.W. Eight Oar championship, on February 6, are making good progress. North Shore, who are training from their branch on the Lane Cove River, have put in good work during the week. North Shore have lost…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →What Caused Trucks to Break Away? Inquiry Into Railway Fatality "Struck by the Buffer"
Mystification as to howl four trucks broke away at Clyde railway yards and caused an. man's death on December 22 was expressed by witnesses on Tuesday, when the district coroner (Mr. G. R. Williams) opened an inquiry into the fatality…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Denied Offer to Withdraw Charge "Fifth Line of Traffic" Motorist in Court
A denial that police had offered to withdraw a charge of dangerous driving against John Trimble (28) if he pleaded guilty to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motoring Notes Petrol Tax Funds "Obvious Injustice"
"The motor using community will not continue to suffer obvious injustice at the hands of the Federal Government," said the president of the N.R.M.A., Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cattle in the North Vestey's Inspector Urges Birdum Railway
"I CAN see no reason why Vestey's meatworks in Darwin, in which more than 1,000,000 is invested, and which have been lying idle for more than a decade,…
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"I WOULD like to say that secret traps are the damnation of this country (England). Education is the only way to prevent the death-roll…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →MOTORS and Motoring Record Motor Dash to Melbourne
MOTORING history was made just before Christmas when two young officers of the R.A.A.F., Flight-Lieutenants E. D. Scott and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Transport of Graziers' Stock Railways Combine an Important Job with Homebush
WHEN it is said that over three million sheep and more than a quarter of a million cattle were sold at the Homebush saleyards last year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Excursions in January
THE Acting-secretary for Railways announce that the excursion programme this month includes a State-wide series during the week commencing January 25…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Boating Yachting Acquatics Motor Boating Preparing for Championships Cettien Will Not Defend National Hydroplane Championship Outboard's Course May Be Cook's River
IT is now definite that H. McEvoy's Cettien will not defend the Australian hydroplane championship on the St. George course on Saturday, January 30. Cettien has been out of commission for months. The engine was damaged almost beyond repair during the N.S.W. title race last March…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Motor Sport and Motoring How "Bluey" Wilkinson Won The World's Speedway Derby
WINNER of the "World's Derby" from one of the strongest fields ever to contest a speedway event, "Bluey" Wilkinson demonstrated at the Sydney Showground on Saturday night that after seven or eight years of continual racing his form is as good, if not better, than ever before. We…
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