Pen-notes and Pencillings. the Motor Battleship
Whilst in America recently Admiral Lord Fisher had something to say regarding the battleship of the future. He foretold the motor battleship, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1911
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The Aeroplane in Commerce
The transportation of several hundred yards of silk from Dayton to Columbus. O.—at distance of 62 miles—in 57 minutes by a Wright biplane recently, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Novel Wind Motor
An American inventor has been experimenting with motors of a novel type, The motor consists of a series of wings formed with movable blades…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The American Motor Rush
In the "American "Review of Reviews" Mr. E. M. West describes the meteoric rise of the automobile industry. In five years time the value of cars…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Train Held Up. the Robber Captured. Vancouver
A robber single handed held up a Colorado passenger train near Pueblo, in the United States, at the revolver point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Daring Robbery. From a Jeweller. Motor Car Employed. London
A daring jewellery robbery was Committed in Belgravia yesterday. A motor stopped in front of Mr. Eusten's establishment, and while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident. Engine-driver Killed. Adelaide
On Saturday a railway smash occurred close to Brachina, 316 miles from Adelaide. A mixed train from Quorn to Hergott ran into a washaway. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trackless Trams and Motor 'Buses
City life has produced what is known as nerves. The philosopher long ago remarked that "It's not the miles we travel," but the pace that kills." And the city…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French Railway Pillage. Paris
Waggons at Vangorard railway station, Parts, are pillaged of bales of cotton goods, form produer, etc., to the extent of £10,000 annually. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trolly and Train Collide. Adelaide
Five of the men engaged on the construction of a new railway safety siding between Mitcham and Blackwood in the hills this afternoon were on a trolly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Signalling. Progress Towards Perfection
The question of the perfection of signailing arrangement has been given and immediate and painful interest by the Hawes disaster says the Yorkshire "Post."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Projected Railway. Forbes to Stockinbingal. Sydney
Evidence was taken by the Public Works Committee, to-day, regarding the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Forhes to Stockinbiagal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Extraordinary Fight. Town Versus Railway Company
The story of an extraordinary war waged between a young American city and a great railroad company is related in the "Wide World Magazine" by Percival J. Cooney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Car Fatality. Verdict of Manslaughter. Sydney
The circumstances attending a motorcar accident which occurred In Oxford-street, Woollalhru, on November 28th, when Francis Emma Stovens, lately,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Employees. Deputation to the Premier. Sydney
A deputation from the Railway Traffic Employees' Association waited upon Mr. M'Gowen, the State Premier, to-day, and laid before him the following requests:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Decentralisation. Further Evidence. Sydney
The Royal Commission appointed to consider the question of railway decentralisation held another sitting at the Works Department, Sydney, this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italian Railways. Attempts at Wrecking. Rome
Owing to the delay in satisfying the demands of the men for increased wages, a campaign of obstruction and sabotage has commenced on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damaged Roads. No Government Grants. Sydney
Representatives of several shires and municipalities in the Illawarra and South Coast districts, introduced by Mr. M. F. Morton, M.P., waited on Mr. Griffith,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Queensland. Railway Lines Submerged. Brisbane
The Railway Department has received advice that two serious washaways have occurred near Barcaldine. Repairs cannot be executed until the water subsides…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Trouble. Dismissal of Porters. London
The North-eastern Railway Company has dismissed, after notice, a number of fish porters at Hull, who declined to continue to act as…
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