MOTORS and Motoring Tractors on the Farm
IF the best performance is to be obtained from the farm tractor the Ignition lever should be used fairly frequent. This is proved by…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 248
New Petrol Ration. Instructions to Motorists. Details of Cuts. MELBOURNE
The Minister for Supply, Senator McBride, to-day announced the details of procedure to be adopted following the Federal Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tram and Bus Men to Get Increases
A wartime loading of 3s a week is to be paid to all adult tram and bus employees as from the beginning of the first complete pay period this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fairfield Motor Cycle Club
Last Sunday the above club held a grass track meeting at Yennora. There were two heats and a final of three laps, and a handicap…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Deepwater Motor Boat Club. Last Saturday's Results
Unlimited Championship, 4 miles.—First heat: Sweet 16 (C. Lawes, A.M.Y.S.) 8m. 37s., 1; Miss Edna (C. Benson, Deepwater). 8m. 56s., 2; Baby Penta II. (B…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →First Train Waitresses
Mary Flanagan and Florence Boyle have the distinction of being the first train waitresses in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock on Enclosed Roads
"Subscriber.": I have a hometsead farm with a road running each side of it. I have permission to close these roads and have good gates on them…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Man Killed by Train
Gladstone Wallace Brown, 51, of Margaret-street, Petersham, was killed instantly when he fell and was crushed between a moving train and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gate to the Empire's Sea Road Importance of London River
Reviewing the poetic praise bestowed upon London River, it seems that little tribute has yet been paid to its importance in the heyday of British emigration. Now that we are cementing cracks in the Empire's frontiers, the poets owe this ancient…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canadian Pacific Railway. Montreal, May 8
At the annual meeting of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Sir Edward Beatty, the chairman, announced that the company had acquired a majority Interest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Tramp at Home
When wiiters of the stature of Thomas Burke and S. P. B. Mais figure in the "Contents" list of what might be regarded as a glorified guide-book, the prospective…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Train
I see a train Moving through the night: It has been travelling since The first glimpse of light…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Truth About Motors Here's a Way to Beat Petrol Rationing
THIS is to tell of a new and worthwhile hobby—how to beat the ration miles. Not by skullangery or slick work with ration tickets, but by methods within the reach of every motorist…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motorists Warned
THE Superintendent of Traffic, Mr. T. W. Hooper, is concerned about the growing failure of motorists to observe the regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Hit by Motor Cycle After Voting
Walking across Homer Street, Earlwood, after he had recorded his vote at the Earlwood Public School last night, Richard Pike, 56, of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cycling. Open Road Races. Amateur Season Opened
The amateur road season was officially opened on Saturday afternoon with three open road races promoted by the N.S.W. Cyclists' Union, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Dying Engine-driver Saves Raided Train London, Sunday (A.A.P.)
Engine-driver Percy Goldsack was fatally wounded when German, planes machine-gunned his train yesterday afternoon, put before lie collapsed he saved his passengers' lives by backing the train off the main line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big British Success on Bagdad Road Key Fort Taken On Vital Route By Tank Attack LONDON
Repudiated by his Islamic neighbors and hammered by British forces, Rashid Ali, the Irak upstart Premier, has been hurled out of a vital strategic stronghold in Western Irak…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Queensland Burns Philp Motorship. Sailed Brisbane. Burns Philp & Co., Ltd., agents
J. C. Hutton Pty., Ltd., 4 bxs, 45 cs butter, 1 cs sausage, 1 bx, 22 cs hams, 8 cs cheese, 18 cs bacon, 1 cs end meats, 1 cs hams and becon, 1 cs middles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Boating. Upper Hawkesbury Club
First Handicap.—Yank (L. Stubbs). 1: Wa[?] (F. Nunn). 2; Benjule (B. Jones), 3. A Class Championship. 10 miles.—Ivy (E. A[?] cock). 1. B class, 5 miles: Spitfire (J. Lowry)…
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