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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1910

175 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 9

Cycle and Motor Novelties

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 4

A unique tandem chain-driven sleigh used by alpine soldiers. The first motor car ever made in England…

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Wonderful Railways

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 August 1910 · page 4

For really exciting railway travel one must go to South America. There engineers have had to break all sorts of world's records to…

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Baby' in an Aeroplane

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 September 1910 · page 3

The New York correspondent of a London paper has narrated how a wild biplane made by an amateur of New Jersey suddenly ascended…

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Road to By-and-by

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 September 1910 · page 1

It's the loveliest road to By-and-By--I walked it once in the long ago. After the lessons and play are done. You shut your eyes, and, soft and…

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Defence of Australia. Linking Up Railways. Statement by Mr. O'malley Melbourne

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 September 1910 · page 6

The Minister for Home Affairs had something to say to-day regarding the breaks of railway gauge in Australia from a defence…

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Man Killed in a Tram Smash

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

At about 10 o'clock last Friday night the most serious accident that has yet happened in connection with the electric trams at Adelaide…

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Baby in an Aeroplane

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 September 1910 · page 6

The New York correspondent of a London paper has narrated how a wild biplane made by an amateur of New Jersey suddenly ascended with the four year old son of Charles…

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The Bridge of Years

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 3

When I was six and she was four, the midge We used to play about the old red bridge,…

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A New Wave Motor

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 3

An inventor has been interesting himself in the production of a wave motor. His idea is to catch the power of a wave on its shoreward…

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Scientific Notes. a Railway Record

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 2

Figures just compiled by the Pennsylvania railroad system show that although in 1908 and 1909 its various lines carried a total of 299,762,658…

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Aeroplane in War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 4

When men find themselves confronted by a hostile army, they are willing to run risks it would be folly to incur in time ol peace…

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London to Paris Motor Service

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 4

The latest instance of smart business enterprise is the establishment of a weekly London-to-Paris motor service by Messrs. Waring and…

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Damages for Railway Smoke

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 3

On 24th May, 1886. a British florist obtained in a court of law a very large eiira of money for damages done to his garden stock by the smoke of passing railway…

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Aeroplane Speed Champion

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 1

Mr. Graham White, who won the blue ribbon at the Boston aviation carnival, met Mr. Glen Curtiss, an American airman,…

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Railway Construction. the Rival Policies

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 3

The far-sighted action of the Wade Government in obtaining authority from Parliament to raise a loan of two millions…

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A £50 Motor-car

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 September 1910 · page 4

A French firm has come forward with a speedy and luxuriously suspended two-seated vehicle to be sold for the sum of £50. It was fitted…

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Letter "X" Bridge

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 2

Paris, which is to-day considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world is still striving to become more beautiful, and to make this possible…

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World-wide Notes. Thousand-mile Aeroplane Trip in Ten Hours

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 4

The Wright suit—based on alleged infringements of patents—of which the first results were recently announced in their favour, may result…

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Coming Hat-sized Motor Car Engine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 4

The gas turbine corresponding to the gas engine, has been the subject of constant experiment, and though still crude in its development may…

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New Mail Train

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 October 1910 · page 2

Commencing on Sunday, October 16th, a new mail, train will leave Sydney at 8.25 p.m. daily (Saturdays excepted) for Cooma, calling at the…

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