Motor for Rough Roads
The roads of Costa Rica, notorious for deep ruts which make touring with the usual type of motorcar almost impossible, are…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
244 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 13
Science Notes & News. for Safety on the Railways
There has been installed on one of the English railways a new system of signalling which, it is claimed, is the most perfect yet devised…
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It was with considerable satisfaction, that the Acting Minister for Railways. Mr. Carmichael, announced on Monday last that all difficulties had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Buying a Motor Car
When buying a motor car, certain points should be borne in mind. For instance, any make that sets the design of the world, and leads the way in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Train Inconvenience
Frequent complaints have been made by Cooma line passengers who have had to leave the carriages, in which they have travelled from Sydney, at Goulburn…
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The passenger traffic between Braidwood and Tarago is kept up pretty regularly by motor car, of which there are two lines running, and the old coaching days, except in regard to the running of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Freights and Fares
THE Acting Minister for Railways announces a substantial reduction in railway fares and freights, the reductions to come into force on May 28. It is decided to abolish the issue of return tickets for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scientific Notes. Petrol Driven Train
The Great Western Railway Company have entered into an arrangement to experiment with a petrol electric rail motor-car. The car will seat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Special to Motorists
THE run to Mount Kosciusko is an ideal one for the motorist. Good roads load from everywhere to Cooma, and from here there is a splendid road to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Capital Railway
WE have it on [?] authority that it is the intention of the Federal Government to make a commencement w[?] the survey of the railway which is to connect the Capital with the Federal Port at…
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THE Braidwood Dispatch says :—We have it on good authority that it is the intention of the Federal Government to make a commencement with the survey of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aeroplane on the Sea
The first heavier-than-air machine to make successful fights starting from water is the Fabre. For this purpose the monoplane is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Rear-wheel Motorcycle
An inventor in Camden, Maine, U.S.A., has attached two extra wheels to the rear of his motor-cycle, converting it into a unique, but, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Assaulted at Ashfield. Found Unconscious on Road
As [?] on Tuesday morning from Asbtie[?]d. I appears that Miss A. M. Black, a young woman, living at Armstrong-street, Ashfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Closer Settlement, Closer Railways
The Decentralisation Commission, in their recommendations for relieving the congestion of traffic in the metropolis by the opening of other ports, show that closer settlement…
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THE statement in this journal of last Wednesday's issue aa to the survey of a railway line from Canberra to Bungendore has been officially borne out in a newspaper telegram from Melbourne of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robbing a Robber. a Page from a Tramp's Diary
"Good Beds for Working Men and Travellers 4d.," was the legend painted on the fanlight of a house oear Custom House Street, Cardiff, and as I would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aeroplane Propellers
The first aerial screw was proposed and used by Leonardo da Vinci, the great artist architect, and man of learning of Italy, who, like Giotto…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local News. Sensational Motor Car Accident
THE team selected by the Araluen Rifle Club to shoot in a match with a team of the Braidwood Rifle Club met with a sensational accident while coming to Braidwood on Wednesday last in one of…
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A team of Araluen riflemen met with a sensational accident while journeying to Braidwood last Wednesday in a motor car. The car, when within three miles…
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