B. and B. Road Race
A LARGE crowd assembled at Buttle's culvert on Saturday to witness the road race promoted by Mr. W. B. Freebody, local manager for the B…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1908
192 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 10
In a Tramcar
Little Dobbs: " I think they ought to charge by weight in these trams." Stout Lady (who has just entered) : "If they, did, they, woudn't stop to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bishop Barlow's Motor Tour
BISHOP BARLOW has made arrangements for a South Coast pastoral visitation during the last three weeks of October in his motor-car. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Madness
The men who took part in the Pekin to Paris race no doubt underwent great hardships, but that race will be as a pleasure trip compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tarago-Braidwood Railway. Immense Timber Resources
The Minister for Works bat just returned from the Braidwood district, where he went to inquire into the timber resources of that part of the State, as they affected the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Dashes Into' Horses
A RESIDENT of Portland, who was a passenger on the mail train from Sydney to Mudget states that about 5 o'clock on Saturday morning as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bishop's Motor Tour
BISHOP BARLOW left Goulburn on Monday in his motor car for his South Coast and Monaro visitation, calling at Moruya in the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deadly Motor Race Driver Hurled Out at Top Speed. Many Cars Overturned. One Killed; Four Injured
From New York, on 9th October, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:— The automobile race for the Vander…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hiring a Motor-car the London Practice
For the man who cannot afford the ownership of a car, and does not wish to buy one, there is the alternative of hiring. Hiring a car is quite a simple…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Railway Matters. Who Is Responsible for the Catastrophe? [To the Editor of the Dispatch]
SIR,— In view of the very serious setback which the pastoral interests of New South Wales and Victoria have received in 1908, I will ask you, as one who has had the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dreadful Railway Accident
WHILE a line repairer was making his way home to Hobart on Monday night he came across the bodies of a woman and a child in a tunnel near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Army. the Motor Corps
Major-General Sir Alfred E. Turner, formerly Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces, giving his views on the British Army motor reserve—a corps to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Zeppelin's Airship. Its Destruction. Motor Explosion. Counts Pathetic Despair
The voyage of Zeppelin No. 4, which began on Tuesday, August 4, with such bright omens of success, has terminated in tragic disaster. The great airship…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Summer Railway Time Table
THE, N.S.W. summer railway service, to come into operation next Sunday, is to confer a great advantage on the railway travelling public. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Invalids' Wine. for a Motor-car Victim
From Leeds on July 27 the "Daily News" wrote:—"It does seem a good deal there is no doubt," remarked Mr Justice Grantham…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Racing Motor Wrecked. Accident at 110 Miles an Hour. Mechanician Killed
A serious accident occurred at Brooklands yesterday, August 8, a Mercedes car, travelling at a speed of 110 or 118 miles an hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bicycle Road Race
THE following are the nominations and handicaps for the above event, promoted by Messrs. Moore Bios., to be decided on Saturday next. The course…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Railway and Post Office Time-table
THE following time-table came into force yesterday:—RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS. Mail Train Sydney will arrive at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Motor-car for £70 Prospects of a Cheap "Runabout."
The "man of moderate means" will be sorry to hear that for him the prospect of possessing a reliable motor-car is as yet a very faint one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Motorist's Memories. for and Against
Even without the fierce joys of road-racing, says Mr Money-Coutte in his article "Some More Motor Gossip," in the current number of the "Badminton,"…
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