Aeroplane Weights
An analysis has been made of the various types of areoplane. The Wright biplane for each horse-power weighs, it appears, 41.6 pounds and spreads 21.6…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1910
175 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 9
Army Aeroplane to Try Mufflers
The flying officers of the United States Signalling Corps are experimenting in muffling tho motors of the army aeroplane, so that the flight of the…
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A PARTY of surveyors from the Commonwealth Department arrived in Yass on Tuesday morning from Melbourne. They will survey and report upon routes along which…
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SIR,—In the recent State by-elections two seats in which the farmers' vote predominates have been lost and producers have been charged with apathy in allowing that to…
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The motor waggon system in agricultural districts in England is extending. Two services of motor waggons have been established to meet the needs of…
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CONSIDERABLE [?] valry seems to exist in this district in regard to placing the best and most powerful motor car on the road Mr. F. M. Cooper intends. we hear, in order notte be outdone to obtain a 40…
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As will be seen in the report of the Shire Council meeting on Thursday, it was decided to erect a fence on the side of the new deviation at Tollbar Hill od the Clyde read. The portion of the…
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A large motor car arrived in Braidwood yesterday covered in like an omoibus and having seating accommodation for 12 passengers, the seats being on each side. Mr. Dearman, the owner, who was…
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The motor oar purchased by Mr. J. F. Beckett, Inspector for the Colonial Mutual Life Insurance Society, was not long in possession before it broke down with him. Mr. F. M. Cooper, from whom…
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A triple tragedy under sensational conditions even for America, the home of so much that is picturesque and…
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According to advanced summaries of the statistics of railway operation in. the United States, in the year ending 30th June, 1904, the number of…
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A railway porter, James Grant, aged 27, was on Friday afternoon uncoupling an engine from a carriage at Rookwood Cemetery. when by…
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INTELLIGENCE was received in town on Monday of Mr. Charles Butcher having been killed on Saturday night while driving a motor car from Bateman's Bay to Moruya. He arrived ar Bateman's Bay…
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At the second annual conference the Shires' Association which was opened in Sydney on Tuesday, Cr. J. Keeffe (Yarrowlumla)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telephoning From a Train
The Louisville correspondent of the "American" describes a successful test of a new invention enabling a railway, passenger to telephone from a moving train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Yorkshire Visitor. at the Motor Show
"What I says, Merrill," said Mr Poskitt, after returning from the Motor Show at Olympia and seating himself in a front of the smoking-room fire in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Splendid Railway Earnings
For a long time past railway earnings have been in the neighborhood of [?]100,000 per week, and have given promise of a record year for the department. The latest…
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An action has been commenced in the Sydney District Court in which Joseph Leonce Betual, of 140 Mount street, North Sydney, proceeded against the General Motor…
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Rolls, the English aviator, has accomplished a fine acheivement in aeroplaning across the Channel, from Dover to Calais…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Famous Train. the West Coast Diner
Time was, and not so very long ago either, when to ask the question which was the "crack" train of the London and North-Western Railway…
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