Fooling the Tram Companies. Acrobats Who Made a Living [?] Tun[?]ling Off Cars
How an acrobat with a genuine broken neck made a living by tumbling from street cars and fooling the claim agents, doctors, and everybody…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1906
235 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 12
Bourke to Sydney by Road
When we suggested taking our bikes to Bourke preparatory to riding home from that western town, our friends pityingly suggested the advisability of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Electric Railway
'Pat,' said plodding Pete, 'we're getting left again,' 'What's the matter?' asked Pat. 'Why, don't you see, if dese railroads…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Buseyeeitis Motor Omnibus Disease. Reading En Route
The motor-omnibus, which has been blamed as the cause of many Ills, is now indicted on the new charge of affecting the eyesight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Social Beauties. How to Train Them
Just on the same principle as the one get forth by on old custodian at Oxford to an American who wanted to know how a lawn as emerald green, as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Ambulance
THE Railway Ambulance Class has been reformed. At a meeting on Saturday last there was a good attendance of members. Mr. C. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Marchioness Killed. Fatal Motor Accident
On 8th March, the correspondent of the London “Daily Mall” wrote:— A shocking motor car accident occurred near here at five o’clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Laying Railway Tracks by Electricity
An interesting portable electric plant is used by the French railways in permanent way construction, and enables track laying to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flying Machine. the Aerodrome
Mr W. E. Garrett Fisher writes in the London “Daily Mail”;— The possibilities of human locomotion are advancing rapidly. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Orgy Is a Train. Scotch Express Case
For the second [?] the Clerk dwell maststrate [?]stened yesterday to the night express trains from Scolded Robert Dicken aged [?] a sawyer of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Petrol Electric Motor-car
At the electrical engineering works of Messrs, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd, at Chariton, Kent, a demonstration was given recently of a system for petrol electric…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cheap Railway Excursion
THE Railway Department advertises an excursion train to Sydney and intermediate stations at the specially low fares of 1½ per mile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wide World. “New Terror to London.” Motor Buses
“In the public interest” a gentleman sued the London Road Car Co. at Westminster County Court yesterday a motor ’bus having Jerked him off as he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Fatality. a Marchesa Killed
The Rome correspondent of the London “Daily Mail” wrote on 9th March:— Full details are now available of the tragle motor-car accident yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mount Kosciusko Road
THE Minister for Works has accepted a tender for portion of the road to be constructed as part of the scheme to make Mount Koscuiko a popular…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Humour. in a Crowded Tramway Car
"Conductor!" screamed the angular, sharp-nosed woman in the trolley-car, 'this man is putting his head on my shoulder!" 'He must be asleep, ma'am, or blind,' said…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Railway Station
IT has been decided to transfer the railway traffic to the new Central Railway Station in Sydney during the first week in August. Probably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A London Tramp. Some Dignity [?]
A writer in the “Westminster Gazette” observes, half satirically:— Policeman looked after him as he slouched the [?] of his coat, the nesh…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Why Railways Do Not Pay Better. a Serious Question
“One of the Secret” contributes to “Chambers’s Journal” an article containing some rather striking statements on the causes of the low dividends paid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Armoured Motor Car
Mr. Frederick R. Simms has invented an armoured motor-car, for use in time of war. In general appearance the car may…
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