Long Trip by Baby Car Won Motor Rally To Adelaide
A mud-bespattered baby ear, with wire gauze in place of the usual covering on either side of the engine, and a water-bag slung within handy…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1937
9,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250
Putting Baby to Sleep Motorist Late, Fined For Speeding
Having had trouble in getting the baby to sleep, he was running late for the opera. That, according to the police evidence, was the explanation…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Motorists Sound Horn Too Much, Says One of Them
SYDNEY motorists are too prone to blast through traffic with a finger pressed on the horn button. -- A leading Sydney motorist. The abolition of horns, however, might lead to more accidents. -- Sydney doctor. Those comments were made to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →135,000 Jobs at Stake Company Defies Motor Union Detroit
THREATENED by the United Automobile Workers of America with a general strike of employees of General Motors…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Higher Motor Premiums Lead To Accidents, Say Trade
INCREASED premiums for car insurance would lead to more accidents. People would keep in use…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strike Threat to U.S. Motor Industry New York
A THREATENED strike among General Motors Corporation employees. affecting 135,000 persons, may paralyse half of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motoring Space-saving on Trucks. Forward Control. New Two-ton Ford
Several years ago, the idea was adopted in certain commercial vehicles of placing the driver's seat alongside the engine, so that the full length of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Making Motor Parts. Croydon Factory
A new factory for the manufacture of motor parts, that has been completed for. Bradley, Bros., Ltd., at Parramatta-road, Croydon, provides ideal conditions for employees. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Petrol Taxes. Grant Not Limited to Reading. Motorists' Protest
Motoring organisations throughout Australia have received with disquiet an official announcement that the additional amount to be paid to the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motorist Fails to Stop. Lithgow
The police have not yet located the driver of a car which is reported to have collided with a bicycle ridden by Constable S. Priestley at 1 a.m. on Friday last. Constable Priestley…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Cycling. Annual Road Races
At a meeting of the New South Wales Auto Cycle Union last night the possibility of changing the venue of the annual road racing championships from Bathurst to Goulburn was discussed. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Hit by Train
KIAMA, Tuesday. -- Walking along the railway line between Kiama and Gerringong, George Pagan, a Main Roads Department employee, was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Cinema Train
One of the queerest trains in the world belongs to the Eastern Bengal Railway, India. It consists of an immense bogie carriage, which serves as a permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Season Tickets Over Bridge Issue To Motorists Is Urged
Season tickets should be issued to motorists if as expected. Harbor Bridge accounts show a surplus. This is the contention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gold Rush in New Guinea by Aeroplane
BRISBANE, Tuesday. -- A former pilot with Guinea Airways brings news of another gold rush to a reputedly rich field in New Guinea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Protest by 80,000 Motor Owners Diverting Sectional Tax From Roads
"JUST how long the motor owners of the Commonwealth numbering nearly 800,000, will endure the Federal filching of their sectional taxation is a matter which politicians should seriously consider, from the standpoint of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Roads Agreement. State Will Seek Modification
The State Government has decided to seek a modification of the draft of the new Federal Aid Roads Agreement. It was officially stated yesterday that New…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Road Map of Sydney
A copy of "Gregory's Road Map of Sydney and Environs" is to hand. The map. printed in five colors and measuring 30in. by 40in. shows in heavy outline the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clasped Post In Fall From Train
Clasping a signal-post as he fell from a train at a tunnel entrance at Museum Station yesterday, a man probably saved his life…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Objects To Road Agreement
Alteration of the proposed new Federal Aid Roads Agreement is being sought by the State Government on the ground that the draft gives too much…
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