Bid for Liberty Prisoner Leaps Off Train Halted by Shot From Police
AN attempt to escape was made today by a prisoner who had just been sentenced at Newcastle police station…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
7,611 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 250
"Pilot" Discusses Newmarket and Australian Cup Ajax Is Not Badly Treated at 9 STONE Horses That May Be Well In Sprint Picture Pooley Bridge Likely For Long Race
AT first glance Ajax might appear severely treated with 9.0 in the Newmarket Handicap. Last spring, however, he proved himself the most brilliant of an exceptionally good lot of three-year-olds, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Catholic Engineer. Planned Paris Underground Railways
The man who planned and began, the Faris underground railway System—the famous Metro, whose lines to-day spread for 100 miles under the French capital—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The First Railway
Reference last week to the pioneer railway locomotive recalled the opening of the line from Sydney to Parramatta Junction in 1855. The terminus at this…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"THUNDERBOLT' Captain Eyston Cables Thanks to Wolseley Motors, Ltd
CAPT. C. E. T. EYSTON, whose 5000h.p. car "Thunderbolt" establisher a now world's land speed record of 312.20m.p.h. on 19th November at Bonneville…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MOTORS and MOTORING Australia's Motor Industry Best Year of Trade Since 1929 and Big Figures Recorded
THE Australian automobile industry in 1937 had its best year since the peak sales of 1928 and 1920, according to figures issued by the Dunto[?] Ferdrian Robber Co. All told, sales of new cars for the twelve months ending December 31st last, totalled 58,053 units, as compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Motor Truck in Industry and Agriculture
EVIDENCE of the increasing use of the motor truck in industry and agriculture in Australia is the fact that more that 20,000 now truks are being…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor Sport & MOTORING Brilliant Riding Regains Ashes for Australia England's Team Work
BY defeating England 30-24 in the fourth Speedway Test match at the Sydney Showground on Saturday night, Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Motor Boating-Yachting-Aquatics Hydroplane Fiasco 38 M.P.H. Was Best Speed in Title Race McEvoy: "A Matter Of Principle"
FIVE years ago Harry McEvoy went to South Australia and after a gruelling 100 miles contest, brought back to N.S.W. the Australasian unlimited hydroplane championship, with 470 horse-powered Cettein…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →FOR N.Z. Coast Trade Two Motorships Ordered
Orders for two twin-screw cargo motorships for the New Zealand coastal trade have been placed with Henry Robb, Ltd., Leith. One…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tempe-east Hills Railway Increased Settlement Scheme
Councillor C. Monro, M.L.A. for George's River, has submitted a report to the Premier in connection with his proposal to inaugurate a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Lorry Accident
Henry Hunter, 53, of Newtown, was in a motor lorry on the Prince's Highway near Waterfall on Monday, when it got out of control, crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Car Washed Into Creek Motorists Plight Seen by Loco. Driver Cootamundra
At the Gap Bridge, three mines from the town, on the Junee Road, a well of water several feet high, cawed, by the recent heavy rain,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Child Was Strapped to Mother Shocking Tragedy In Railway Dam Stones on Feet Cootamundra
COOTAMUNDRA was shocked this morning when the sad news spread that the bodies of Mrs. Edgar Wilson. 38, and her younger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Reports. North Coast Roads
The exceptionally heavy rain on the north coast has caused considerable damage to roads, reports the N.R.M.A. touring department. Pacific Highway is now reported fully…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Allawah Traffic Bridge
A reply was received at the last meeting of Hurstville Council from the Secretary of Railways, to council's representations of October last re the alteration of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Lunacy" on Roads Defined Judge Explains Remarks On Motorists
Judge Curlewis, who yesterday in the District Court said in effect that nine motorists out of 10 were lunatics, to-day defined for "The Sun" the forms of "lunacy" in motorists which he abhors most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Airliner Train Crash
BRITAIN'S largest airliner, the first of 14 giant Ensign machines, has undergone its initial trials. The machine has a wingspan of 130 feel and an overall length of 123 feet. She has s [?]commodation for 42 passengers. TWO PASSENGERS were killed and 17 injured when the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ajax-Pooley Bridge For £5000
Ajax and Pooley Bridge were backed for £5000 yesterday for the Newmarket and Australian Cup double…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Escape From Nanking Flags Protected Special Train
REFUGEES from Nanking before the victorious Japanese armies entered were Professor and Mrs. F. W. Schwinning, who arrived in…
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