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…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'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…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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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