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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

210 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 11

CYCLING & Motoring Notes Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia, Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 4

Floyd MacFarland, the well-known American, racing crack, is now free to race again in Australia. The remainder of his three years' disqualification…

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Railway Commissioners’ Liabilities

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 2

Merchants and others are complaining regarding the Railway Commissioners divesting themselves of any responsibility in the carriage of produce and other…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 4

The Dunlop Tyre Co., who are organising, the overland Reliability Motor Contest from Sydney to Melbourne, which is to take place at the end of February,…

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Motor Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 4

After the railroad the motor road—the latter to be as rigidly tabooed to all carriages except motors as the former is to everything except its steam kettle and train of waggons…

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Ploughing and [?] by Motor

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 2

An interesting experiment was recently [?] on the [?] at Ashtabula, Ohio, where sparks from a passing train on the Nick[?] Pla[?]…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 4

W. Palmer, the Australian racing crack, who has been upon a racing trip to America returned to Melbourne by the S.S. “Ventura,” Interviewed at…

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Accepted Road Tender

The Age · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 2

ONLY one tender was received for road contract No. 12,4 5, Bungendore via Captain's Flat to Braidwood-Animbo road, being that of Mr W. C. Tankey, £19 5s…

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The Trans-siberian Railway

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 1

The most interesting and ital portion of Russia’s great 4,000 mile railway is the steam ferry across Lake Baikal , in Central Siberts…

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A Mile a Minute on a Motor Car

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 4

A writer in the New York World describes what it feels like to sit in a racing automobile travelling at the rate of a mile a minute. The racing was on one of the well-known…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1905 · page 4

Dunlop Tyre Company, the promoters of the forthcoming big Overland Motor Reliability Contest from Sydney to Melbourne next month, announce…

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The Railway Post-box

The Age · Tuesday 31 January 1905 · page 2

THE Deputy Postmaster-General advises Mr. Austin Chapman as' follows:— "Referring to my letter of the 12th instant, acknowledging the receipt of yours of the 9th, enclosing a…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia, Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1905 · page 4

The Sydney Cycling Carnival was concluded last Monday night, when despite. unfavourable weather conditions, a very large crowd of spectators attended…

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Roads Office

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 2

For the information of persons who may have business at the Roads Office it may save a little trouble to know that the office is now in the; Courthouse…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 4

Now that the Dunlop Motor Reliability Contest from Sydney to Melbourne, is to be held on the 21st. to 25th. February is only a week or so ahead, this…

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Science and Invention. Gas Turbines for Motor Cars

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 2

THE possibilities of gas turbines formed the subject of an address delivered by Mr R. M. Nailson, of Manchester, at the Institute of Mechanical…

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Overhead and Underground Railways

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 21 February 1905 · page 4

There is probably a great deal to be said for and against both the overhead railroads of New York and the Metropolitan or underground Railway of London. Each system…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1905 · page 2

Arrangements are now practically all completed for the [?]iding of the Dunlop Reliability Motor Contest from Sydney to Melbourne to-day. The…

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Tracking Cattle. Railway Commissioner's Liability

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 2

In the Supreme Court on Tuesday an action was brought by William Rutter Hindmarsh, jun., of Robertson, farmer, against the Railway Commissioners to recover compensation for loss of and…

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Getting in Train

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 4

As the motor car approached the street corner a young man sprang in front of it, and, waving his arms, cried— “Now, come on. will you?”…

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Russians Attack Railway

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

General Sakharoff reports that he sent a detachment to destroy the Railway, and it blew, up a bridge, at Halcheng, returning almost unintercepted…

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