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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1913

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Mammoth Railway Engines

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 12 April 1913 · page 3

Orders have been received in Crewe railway works to build a large number of locomotives, which, when completed, will be the most poworful in the…

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Fireside Fancies. the Great Bridge Over the Zambesi

The Picton Post · Wednesday 16 April 1913 · page 7

A complete desorption of the magn[?]ent bridge erected by British engineers over the Zambear is given in Engineering is This bridge has a main span of…

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Most Economical Cab for Country Roads

The Picton Post · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 3

It is seldom that luxury and economy are iutimately associated. But they are in the 20 h.p. Ford, as brilliantly demonstrated in the recent Sydney to…

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Motor Car for Divers

The Picton Post · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 6

A diving motor car or submarine sledge, for the use of divers while at work in the depths of the ocean is among the latest device being used…

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Science Notes and News. Novel Motor Car Cycle Tubes

The Picton Post · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 7

English motor-cyclists are trying an innovation in inner tubes. Instead of the old method of laying the ends of the tubes over each other in the outer…

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Like a Motor Car

The Picton Post · Wednesday 30 April 1913 · page 7

A large German woman held up a long line of people at the money order window in a post-office the other day, and all because her memory had…

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Most Economical Car for Country Roads

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 3

It is seldom that luxury and economy are intimately associated. But they are in the 20 h.p. Ford, as brilliantly demonstrated in the recent Sydney to…

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Motor Car for Divers

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 2

A diving motor car or submarine sledge for the use of divers while at work in the depths of the ocean is among the latest devices being used…

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Lion and Train

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 3

The following remarkable incident is described in an article on the ''Cape to Cairo Railway" in the Empire Magazine":-A construction train was…

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Train Strikes a Heavier Blow Than a Gun

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 7

The force of a blow struck by a modem train going at high speed is greater than that of the shot from a modern gun. At least, such is the…

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Lion and Train

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 3

The following remarkable incident is described in an article on the "Cape to Cairo Railway" in the Empire Magazine":— A construction train was…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued weak, under personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tra[?],Minister at Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Departments. AGRICULTURAL. No. 107. Lucerne As Horse Feed. What Growers Have to Say

The Picton Post · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 6

Is lucerne as a feed for horses a sound proposition for the wheat farmer There are hundreds of wheat growers in the State who are content to regard…

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Bad Roads af Elderslie

Camden News · Thursday 22 May 1913 · page 4

I am a man that travels about, Good roads I like to see, The Elderslie Road is bad As bad as bad can be…

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Road Problems

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 6

The coming of the petrol motor has accelerated progress and created problems in many directions, but no administrators have been more harassed…

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New Series of Stories. Tramps

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 2

"Can you get on a little farther, Cecily? There's a village over there, and I can't bear you to be out in this rain." "I[?] try."…

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Road Problems

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 2

THE coming of the petrol motor has accelerated progress and created problems in many directions, but no administrators have been more harassed…

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A Road Wanted

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 18 June 1913 · page 4

Mr. A. Butler, of Bowral, attended last Saturday's meeting of the Na[?]tal Shire Council for the purpose of personally urging his claim for a road from the Wombeyan…

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Germany Has 825 Subsidised Road Trains

The Picton Post · Wednesday 18 June 1913 · page 3

According to figures which have just been issued by the German Government, 120 motor "road trains" have been subsidised for the year 1913 by the…

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Steel Railway Carriages

The Picton Post · Wednesday 18 June 1913 · page 3

Two steel vestibuid trains have been running on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway. These trains are practically indestructible. Charles…

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Railway Ticket Frauds

The Picton Post · Wednesday 18 June 1913 · page 3

Striking figures have just been published by the North-Eastern railway Company to show the extent to which railway companies lose by means of…

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