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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1912

210 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 11

The Longest Train on Record

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 December 1912 · page 4

America remains the home of the record. This time it is the longest train on record which must go to the credit of America. Recently a train…

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The Motorists "Exam."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 December 1912 · page 4

"What is an automoblie ?" "It is an infernal machine used by the classes for dealing death to the masses."…

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Market Report. John Bridge & Co., Limited, report: --

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 December 1912 · page 3

Hides. An average decline of an 1-8d occurred. Even when this drop is taken into consideration it must be admitted that…

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King Alphonso's Motor Has Wireless

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 December 1912 · page 5

A deputation from the Spanish Wireless Telegraph Company recently waited on King Alfonso to beg him to accept a magnificent motor-car to…

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Motor Travelling

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 December 1912 · page 2

MR. TEWKSBURY, managing director of the Tewksbury Dredging Company, has pat hit trusty motor car to good ate since hit visit to Braidwood. He travelled in it from the Ovens (Vic.). Then…

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Warren Motor Cars. Latest Designs for the Country

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 3

No doubt many country residents have decided in favor of a motor car as the most serviceable and delightful Christmas, or New Year's gift to their…

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Sicilian Railway Accident. Twenty-five Killed, One Hundred Injured. Rome, Tuesday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 5

Twenty-five persons were killed and 100 injured by the accident which occurred to the Catonia-Messina express, which ran into a goods train owing to the mistake of a…

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Market Report. John Bridge & Co., Limited, report: -- Sheep Skins

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 December 1912 · page 1

In offering as we did the largest catalogues of the day a margin of about 2,500 for our closing sale of 1912, the best traditions of the Company were…

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Railway to Capital

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1912 · page 2

THE Mayor intended at last night's meeting of the Council to table the following minute but as the meeting lapsed, he has, with the concurrence of the Aldermen, decided to…

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Alpine Railway Tunnels

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1912 · page 6

The "Builder" calls attention to the unparalleled activity which prevails at the present time in the projection of schemes for railway tunnels in…

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Radiography for Railways

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1912 · page 6

Ther[?] has [?] been brought out in [?] an adaptation of Ma[?]oni's system of wireless telegraphy, which has for i[?]s object diminishing of the risks of collision…

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