Chase Through Arncliffe. Police and Motor Cyclist
Evidence of an exciting chase by a P.D. car after a motor cyclist, at sixty miles per hour, through Arncliffe and Bexley last Saturday night…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 248
Motor Cars Steam-cleaned
The latest addition to the modern range of service station equipment at Hunt Bros. (Motors) Pty. Ltd., 246 Railway Parade. Kogarah, is a steam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints to Motorists. Emergency Brake
If the emergency brake operates on the drive shaft, great care should be exercised in its application, particularly at high speed. Sudden grabbing of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cars in Collision
At about five a.m. last Saturday two motor cars came into collision at the corner of Beaconsfield and Queen Victoria Streets, Bexiey. Mr. M…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Surfers Train to Bagpipes
Coogee Surf, Club's, march past team for Saturday's carnival trained to bagpipes last night. The pipes were played by a local…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Furnishing and Decorating Correspondence. Port Hacking Road, Caringbah. 13th Jan., 1941. To the Editor, “Observer.”
Dear Sir, A few fishermen visitors would like to If now if you would print a correct table of high and low…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Men Buried by Debris. Railway Tunnel Collapses. 3 Killed, 11 Injured
Three men were killed and 11 others injured when the roof of a tunnel being excavated for half a mile under a spur of the Great Dividing Range…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Speeding
Described by Mr. Arnold, S.M., as “a public menace,” Jack Howard Simpson, 24, machinist, was fined £20 at Kogarah [?] Police Court on Tuesday for driving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East Hills Railway Line
Bexley Council was informed at its last meeting by the Commissioner for Railways, through Mr. Clive Evatt, M.L.A., that with the operation of a new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Trade's Difficulties
Motor trade business declined by 49 per cent, during 1940, as compared with 1939, states the retiring president of the Chamber of Automotive Industries…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Traders Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Motor Traders' Association will be held at the rooms of the association, 57 William Street, on January 22…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motoring News Invention Increases Mileage
A petrol consumption gauge now on the market gives increased mileage. Under the trade name,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Unconscious Man on Railway Line
Rudolph Blandford, 31, was found injured today on the railway near Corrimal. He was unconscious when taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brought First Horse Over Hawkesbury Bridge
TO John Albert Mayo, an octogenarian member of Tattersall's (Syd.) Club, belongs the distinction of having forwarded from Newcastle to Sydney the first racehorse to cross the Hawkesbury River bridge. This happened in 1889, the day after the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Long Trip to Train for Fight
Every day Max Raynor has been making a 40-mile trip from Preston, near Liverpool, to Newtown, on a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Contract Bridge Play Can Win Odd Trick
No matter what the bid, a well-played hand is always interesting to spectators as well as players…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tom Hartigan Is Railwaymen's Friend
TO Thomas Joseph Hartigan, 63-year-old Chief Commissioner of N.S.W. Railways, came an appeal two years ago from a woman living in the outer suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Politicians Vexed by N.s.w. Railways
FEDERAL politicians are up in arms against a recent decision of the N.S.W. Railways Department. Wives of M.P.'s, private secretaries,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amazing New U.S. Planes Join Blitz on Nazis Terrific fighter speed characterises some of the new machines which the Americans are manufacturing for Britain. U.S. designers have,taken full advantage of experiments undertaken by the belligerents in actual combat. Advances in aeroplane design and construction since the outbreak of war have been enormous
GERMANY, too, is believed to have some mechanical surprises up her sleeve as far as aircraft are concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Road To Victory
OUTSTANDING among war films currently showing at city theatres is "Road To Victory," made by Cinesound…
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