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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1917

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

Motoring Notes

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 5

In a paper read before the Coventry Engineering Society (England), Mr. E. A. Watson, M.Sc., brought forward a point which illustrates…

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Motor Car Capsizes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 September 1917 · page 8

A shocking accident, attended by fatal results, occurred between Orbost and Delegate on Monday last. Coming up the hill known…

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Motoring Notes

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 September 1917 · page 4

A new comer into the family of war appliances is the motor cycle carrying airplane. A special platform built between the planes, just…

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Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 October 1917 · page 8
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

A new-comer into the family of war appliances is the motor cycle carrying airplane. A special platform built between the planes, just…

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Yass-canbebra-jervis Bay Railway League '

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 October 1917 · page 2

A meeting of the above League was held at the Mechanics' Institute, Yass, on Friday last. The Mayor (Alderman Shaw) presided…

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The Vacant Railway Commissionership

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 October 1917 · page 2

The demise of the late Mr. Milne rendered yacant a seat on the triumvirate of Railway Commissioners for the State of New South Wales. Several names have…

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Motoring Notes

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 October 1917 · page 4

Only 16 American passenger cars arrived in England during February, as compared with 182 in January. The death recently occurred of…

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Shires and Bridge Closing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1917 · page 2

The writer of the Local Government column in the "S.M. Herald," in referring to the closing of a boundary bridge between two…

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Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1917 · page 8

According to the "Times of India," a new source of motor spirit has been discovered in the flower of the mahua tree, which abounds…

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Motoring Notes

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 October 1917 · page 6

The English authorities have made arrangements with a number of motor manufacturers to immediately take in hand the construction of…

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Railway League

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 3

A meeting of the League was held at the Council Chambers on Monday afternoon last. Present : Messrs. J. H. Byrne (in the chair), R. G.'Hassall, J. Roberts, J.J…

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Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 3

The 5 per cent, war tax levied on all carls sold in the United States has been amended to a degree. This tax is now to be only…

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Return of Ald Clarence Bridge

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 2

Alderman Clarence Bridge (John Bridge & Co., Ltd.), who with Mrs. Bridge and their two daughters, left for Mesopotamia some months ago…

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Attack in Train. Recruiting Sergeant Set Upon

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 4

While travelling in the train between Goulburn and Sydney on Tuesday Sergeant O'sullivan, of the State Recruiting Committee,…

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Mallinson's Oil Sheep Dip "John Bridge" Accept Agency

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 2

Woolgrowers and others will be interested to learn that John Bridge and Co.'s Queens and house has accepted the agency for the popular…

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Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 3
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

Official sources show that there are 40,344 cars, 2,200 commercial vehicles, and 22,180 motor cycles now running in Australia. As…

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Railway Ambulance Examination

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 2

An examination of the Queanbeyan and Michelago classes was held at the Queanbeyan Railway Station on Monday last, 22nd inst., when the following men were…

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Return of Ald. Clarence Bridge

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1917 · page 6

Alderman Clarence Bridge (John Bridge and Co., Ltd.), who, with Mrs. Bridge and their two daughters, left for Mesopotamia some…

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