Should Women Drive Motors. Need of Strong Nerves
The death of Mr. Adney Payne as the result of a motor-car accident whon his wife was driving and the committal for trial of Miss Fox for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1907
282 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 15
Queanbeyan-carwoola Road
THE condition of the above-named road is not all that it might be. The extremely hilly nature of the country makes it not the easiest for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Accidents. How to Avoid Them
The Editor of "The Car" writes as follows in the "Daily Mail" of 14th June:— There is no doubt that many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chemical Road Dangers
The time may soon come when the roads throughout the country will be systematically and periodically dosed with solution of calcium chloride, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor-hearses
The Berlin police have (according to the "Daily Mail") inspected and approved the first electric automobile hearse ever perfected, and it will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tree Stops a Train. Passengers Help
Passengers by an express train on the Great Eastern Railway yesterday morning May 6th, round themselves iced by unusual duties…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steeple As Motor Trap. Policeman Spy in Church Tower
A sergeant belonging to the Warwickshire police force stationed at Shipston-on-Stour devised a novel plan to capture motorists on Saturday last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another American Railway. Smash. 35 Killed, 21 Injured. Imprisoned Passengers Burned to Death
A collision has occurred (says Reuter's Topeka, Kansas, correspondent) five miles west of Alta Vista, between two passenger trains on the Chicago,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chemical Road Dangers
The time may soon come when the roads throughout the country will be systematically and periodically dosed with solution of calcium chloride, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drag for Levelling Roads
The illustration given herewith is taken from the Road Red Book of New York. The lower "split log drag" is made as shown by using two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Oily Street. Another Motor Nuisance
In a case at Lambeth, a motor-bus driver, in the service of Messrs Thomas Tilling, Limited, was summoned by Mr C. W. Tagg, Town Clerk of Camberwell,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Baronet Railway Servant
Sir James Stephen Goold, an Irish baronet has been residing in South Australia for over 40 years, and his identity has just been disclosed, in consequence of the Monte Carlo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Banquet to Tramps. How It Ended
A report is telegraphed from Chicago that a banquet was held there on 20th May, at the Windsor Hotel, to which 100 tramps and "ne'er-do-wells"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uganda Railways Delays Caused by Wild Beasts
Many curious and interesting experiences befell the engineers and officials to whom was confided the construction of the Uganda Railway,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Witty Tramp
A story is at present going the rounds of a certain tramp, who, in the course of his peregrinations unintentionally called at a policeman's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drag for Levelling Roads
The illustration given herewith Is taken from the Road Red Book of New York. The lower "split log drag" is made as shown by using two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mad Man in a Train. Picton, Saturday night
Great excitement was caused at Picton railway station to-day when the mid-day southern train arrived. A man named Wetherspoon, of Bargo, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Boat Accident. a Lady Drowned
Dr Rawson; director of education for the county of Worcester, recently purchased a new motor-boat, and took it for its first spin on the Severn yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Madman in A Train. Sensation Near Picton
A young male passenger from Picton Lakes is stated to have suddenly developed madness on Saturday while travelling in the 11.20 train from Goulburn to Sydney, and injaret several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cars V. Cavalry. a Southern Incident
Mutinous demonstrations by southern troops are of daily occurrence, wrote the " Daily Mail's" Montrellier correspondent on 25th June…
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