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Railways, roads & transport, 1937

9,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 250

Unusual Careers for Woman. Sydney Girl Repairs and Tunes-up Motor Cycles. Anxious to Ride on a Speedway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 18

IT is a long call from the tap-tap of a type-writer, the rattle and churn of a computing machine or the crash of a cash register, to the roar of a racing motor cycle engine. Yet a Sydney girl scorns the former familiar sounds associated with the daily routine of thousands of her sisters who work for a living, and…

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Motor Cycling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 15

The Eastern Suburbs and Parramatta Motor Cycle Clubs will decide a return match at Whynstanes on February 21 The former club will also hold a tourist trophy ra[?] on the same course that day. Members…

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Motor Sport. Petrol Test Conditions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 15

Conditions governing the first event of the year. a petrol consumption test, have been announced by the associated Roval Automobile Club of Australia and the New South Wales Light Car Club…

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Sandy Hollow Railway. Mr. Bruxner's Support

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 8

The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) said last night that he had noticed in a communication from Coonamble that Mr. R. W. McKenzie had said that more money should…

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Motoring Smart Light Morris. Australian Coachwork. Modern Features

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 7

The new Morris 14/43, which was described in these columns several weeks ago, with an illustration of a model with English coachwork, is now…

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Railway Employee's Death. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 9

Frederick Reginald Derrett, 48, railway employee, WPS found lying in the bathroom of his home to-day, bleeding from a wound to his throat. He died in hospital from loss of…

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Motor Strike Deadlock Strikers Hold Plant Despite Military

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 2

DETROIT, Feb. 5.—No settlement was reached in the conference held yesterday between the strikers and the State governor. The central…

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'Crab Action' Motor Car Side Movements for Parking

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 13

ATTEMPTS are being made by automotive engineers everywhere to design a motor car with a "crab action," suitable for…

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Railway Porter To Test Fighting Skill McNAMEE Is Ready Sports Ground Contest Chance for Pluto

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 3

[?]OXERS are recruited from a variety of occupations. Jack McNamee, who will make his first Sydney…

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Motor Cycle Grand Prix Plans

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 8

The general secretary of the Auto Cycle Union (Mr. R. H. White) has just returned from Bathurst after completing arrangements for the…

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Motorist Injured in Collision Gosford

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 1

Harry Kosky, of Portland [?] Rose Bay, suffered a dislocated shoulder and complicated compound fractures of the upper and lower arms…

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Found by Wife with Throat Cut Railway's Employee's Death Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 1

FOUND in a pool of blood by his wife in the bathroom of his home in Charles Street, Goulburn, this afternoon with his throat cut…

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Motorist to Face Trial Liverpool

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 10

Raymond Edgar Laws, of Stanmore, was committed at the Liverpool Court to stand his trial at the Quarter Sessions on a…

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Excursions by Train

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 10

The Department of Railways advises that during the last week of February excursion trains will run from and to the country. Return…

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Cycle Skids to Test Roads

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 21

On wet days along the Kingston bypass road a curiously constructed motor-cycle is being deliberately driven into skids…

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Southern Mines and Roads. Organiser Pumfrey's Report

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 15

Since last reporting I have visited the following jobs: No. 1 Highway, maintenance gang of 10 men, six miles from Bomaderry; S. H. McDonald, Rep. Road JIM PUMFREY…

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Australian Cup. Pooley Bridge Favoured. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 19

Pooley Bridge has advanced to favouritism for the Australian Cup. In the last week, he has been coupled in doubles with all the leading Newmarket Handicap candidates…

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Pachabo Bridge Bidding Dispute Challenge Games Discussed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 2

A DISPUTE has arisen as a result of the challenge of £100 to nothing by Mr. A. E. Whitelaw, of Manly, in support…

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Officers in Train Mystery Independent Cable Service

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 1

BUDAPEST, Tuesday.--The Hungarian, Austrian, and German police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of two officers of the…

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Bridge Across Hawkesbury Councils Asked To Support Scheme

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 13

Shire and municipal councils interested in Peat's Ferry are being invited to support a scheme for the construction of a bridge across the…

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