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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1920

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Aeroplane Smashed. After Sensational Exhibition. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

After giving a sensational exhibition of looping tho loop, nose diving, etc., Captain Wilson, accompanied by a re­presentative of the Larkin Sopwith…

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National Roads Association. Sydney

Daily Observer · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

At a meeting, presided over by Mr. McPherson, President of the Chamber of Commerce, comprising delegates from all parts of the State, the New South…

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Champion Sculler Arrives. Officials Meet Wrong Train. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

When Alf. Felton, the champion seculer, arrived in Melbourne by the Adlaide express to-day, there was no one to meet him. The Victorian rowing…

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Horse and Motor Cycle Collide. Sydney"

Daily Observer · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

A motor cycle and side car collided with a runaway horse in Cleveland-street to-day. Mrs. Sturgeon, who was in the side car, was thrown out, and…

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Motor Cycle Record

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

Leaving Inverell at 3 o'clock yesterday morning on a motor cycle Keith McMaster arrived in Sydney 17 hours 32 minutes later, thus…

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Motor Accident. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

A motor car overturned at Long Bay this morning and four passengers were slightly injured and the drivers hand hurt…

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Railway Pimps. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

A deputation waited upon the Minister for Works and made the statement that a system of spying exists on the railways which is detrimental to the…

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Pinned Under Motor. Sydney

Daily Observer · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 2

A motor car capsized at Long Bay early this morning, and pinned two women and three men underneath it. Fortunately all escaped serious injury. The…

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Alleged Spying. Complaints Against Railway Authorities. Inquiry Promised

Daily Observer · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 2

Messrs V. A. Freeman Meeks, A. G. Potter, Charles Davis (officer of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League), with General Herring, waited…

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Shipping Strike. Reply to Owners' Statement. Victorian Railway Curtailment. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 2

Replying to the official statement on the shipping strike by the steamship owners, the marine engineers' executive state that the statement was doubtless…

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Late Telegrams General Throughout State. Damage to Railways. Southern Line Washed Away. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 2

The rain which has fallen, and is still falling, in the country, is almost general. The only areas which have not benefited are Riverina and the North Coast…

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Tramway Fatality. Driver Committed. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 7

At the inquest into the cause of the accident which resulted in the death of Charles Beeson, evidence was given that he fell off a tram as it was rounding the…

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Giant Aeroplane for U.S.A. LONDON

The North Western Courier · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

Washington message states that the Director of Naval Aviation has informed the House of Representatives that the Navy Department contemplates the…

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Tram and Motor. Head-on Collision. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

A head-on collision between a motor car and a train occurred near the abattoirs, Glebe Island, and three occupants of the car had narrow escapes from…

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Canadian Land. Railway Selling Its Grants. WINNIPEG

Daily Observer · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

The Canadian Pacific Railway is advertising a sale of its last large block of land, 250,000 acres in extent, in the North Battleford district of…

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Motor Accident. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

Several persons were seriously injured as a result of a collision at Baltarat between a motor containing five persons and a motor cycle. The…

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Eight-wheeled Motor Car

The North Western Courier · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 4

That the motor car of the future will roll on more wheels than those of the present is a possibility, in view at the fact that at least one…

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Collision on Bridge

Manilla Express · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 2

On Sunday night a collision occurred on the Manilla bridge, between a Tamworth motor car, driven by Mr George Ambrose and a sulky driven by Mr…

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Goonoo Road F. &. S.a

Daily Observer · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 1

The monthly meeting of the Goonon Goonoo Road branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Tues­day night last, February 3, when there…

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Motor Cycling

Daily Observer · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 1

Mr. F. K. McMater, of Glendon, started for Sydney from Inverell at 3 a.m., on Wednesday morning, in an attempt to lower the existing record, held by…

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