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

Railways, roads & transport, 1914

72 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 4 of 4

Motor-car Window Opener

The Picton Post · Wednesday 16 September 1914 · page 7

The cumbrous method of raising and lowering the windows of motorcars and other carriage by means of a strap will soon be superseded by a…

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Automatic Road Builder

The Picton Post · Wednesday 23 September 1914 · page 7

A self-propelled road-building machine has been tested abroad with results that are said to be highly satisfactory from the standpoints of…

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Natural Gas on the Railway

The Picton Post · Wednesday 7 October 1914 · page 6

Medicine Hat (Southern Alberta) natural gas is in daily use by the Canadian Pacific Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is now more than eight years…

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Camden to the Oaks Railway. Revised Survey

Camden News · Thursday 8 October 1914 · page 6

The following is the report received bp The Oaks Progress Association, and signed by the Engineer for Railway and Tramway Surveys…

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Camden to The Oaks Railway. Revised Survey

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 October 1914 · page 4

The Oaks Progress Association has received the following report on the above subject:— The plan and section of the above is…

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Improvements to the Road Over Razorback

Camden News · Thursday 22 October 1914 · page 1

In our last issue it was reported that a complete scheme for the improvement of the Gt. Southern Road over the Razorback had been prepared by Mr. Engineer G. H. Rowney of the Wollondilly Shire, had been submitted to the Public…

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Railway Works. Picton-hilltop Deviation

The Picton Post · Wednesday 4 November 1914 · page 5

Cabinet had under consideration last week a scheme for increasing employment on railway works. As a result it is proposed to reduce the time…

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[?]Sive Railway Churches. How They Affect Camden. (To the Editor.)

Camden News · Thursday 5 November 1914 · page 4

Sir.—For a number of years I have tried to point out to my following out to my fellow citizens a practical way to get a big reduction in railway fares and freights. I wish to show what it means…

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Fall of Forty Feet. Over Mennangle Bridge

The Picton Post · Wednesday 11 November 1914 · page 4

A Young man named Joseph Mcmahon 18 years of age bad miraculous escape from death on Saturday night appe[?][?] that in Company…

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Faces and Fancies Clant wind Motor

The Picton Post · Wednesday 18 November 1914 · page 7

A wind motor claimed to be the largest of its Kind in the world is in use at Harlingen, Friesland, for draining tract of lowland redeemed from the…

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A Long" Rope Railway

The Picton Post · Wednesday 2 December 1914 · page 6

A rope railway, 75 miles iu length, is lo be put in operation in India. It will connect the rich country in the Vale of Kashmir with the plains of tie Punjab…

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Making Railway Accidents Impossible

The Picton Post · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 7

An engine that whistles when the signals are at danger, and that stops of its own accord if the driver does not i stop it, is being tried by the Midland…

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