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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1911

603 stories in New England's papers · page 10 of 31

Produce on the Railways. TRAVELS 172 Miles in Eight. Days

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 7

It secure hopeless to expect the Railway Department to use even moderate expedition in the transit of perishable products, The delegates…

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A Good Motor Trip

Guyra Argus · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 3

The country traveller of the Perdriau Rubber Company has just completed a trip, which is probably one of the severest tests a car could be put to. The…

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Fight Between New England Blacks 50 Years Ago. on Site of Armidale Railway Station

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 3

There was a furious fight between New England blacks about sixty years ago on the site now occupied by the Armidale railway station…

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Buy a Motor Car

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 4

Last week attention was drown to the advisability of only buying good cars such as Renault, Wolsely. etc. In addition to the points already…

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The Lightest Motor a Quarter Ounce

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 7

The electric motor recently exhibited to the Paris Academy of Sciences by G. Prevet, a French electrician, weighs only a quarter of an ounce…

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Device to Prevent Telescoping of Railway Carriages

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 7

A recent collision in a tobe railway abroad caused by the dense smoke from a fire, which made it impossible for the motorman of one train to see…

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A Good Motor Trip

The Inverell Times · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 3

The country traveller of the Perdriau Rubber Company has just completed a trip, which is probably one of the severest tests a car could be put to. The…

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North Coast Railway

The Inverell Times · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 2

Macleay "Argus" reckons the North Coast Railway is as good as completed. The electorates between the Manning and the Clarence, through which the…

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Sensational Train Accident the Driver Killed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 9

Sensational railway accident, resalting in the death of the engine driver, Sibraa, a footballer, better known as "Snowy Ryan," occurred…

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Railway Policy. Big Change Foreshadowed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 9

The Government has under consideration a scheme for equalising the value of railways to country [?] ers, by [?]ebates of railway freights,…

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Motoring

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 6

A discussion in one of the American papers, arising from J. De Rosier's fine motor cycle record of 81 miles odd in the hour, as to which is…

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Rights of Travelling Stock to use of Public Roads

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 2

The question of the right of travelling stock to use a public road has been a matter of contention for some time past. Recently it has been revived…

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A Good Motor Trip

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 5

The country traveller of the Perdriau Rubber Company has just completed a trip, which is probably one of tho severest tests a cur could be put to. The…

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Railway Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1911 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday.—Eleven lives were lost and 50 persons injured as a result of an accident to an excursion train at Easton, in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.). The train was…

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The "Duck" Aeroplane

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 2

Louis Paulhan, who is the on of this best known of the French [?]has designed an aeroplane which is called the"Dunk"[?]…

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Buying a Motor Car

Guyra Argus · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 4

When buying a motor car, certain points should be borne in mind. For instance, any make that sets the design of the world, and leads the way in…

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Buying a Motor Car

The Inverell Times · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 3

When buying a motor car, certain points should be borne in mind. For instance, any make that sets the design of the world, and leads the way in…

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Trail of the Motor

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 2

RICHMOND.—Many orchardists at Kurrajong and Grose Vale complain of the damage motor cars are doing to thenorchards, principally along the main…

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Cycling and Motoring

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 9

Some very fast work was aecomplished by the members of the Victorian Motor Cycle Club, when their annual 100 miles' road race was…

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Buying a Motor Car

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1911 · page 5

When buying a motor car, certain points should be borne in mind. For instance, any make that sets the design of the world, and leads the way in…

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