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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1920

92 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 5

Latest Cable News. Aeroplane Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 7

Phillip Nunn, one of the two victims of the aeroplane disaster at Mornington on Friday, died from his injuries. Nunn was only 19…

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Carriage of Wool. Railway Rates

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 3

When it was proposed last month to increase the railway freights, the president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association…

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Aeroplane for Queanbeyan

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. L. Theo. H. Cooper has been appointed advance secretary for the Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company of Sydney. They propose to fly the latest…

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Electric Repair Train

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 3

Everybody has heard about the wonderful system of light railways which the British constructed for military transport in ,Flanders,…

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Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 4

Mr. Joseph Winter was killed as a result of a motor accident on the Good Hope Road, about five miles from Yass, between 5 p.m…

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Motor Car Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 2

Messrs. Weir and Donnelly, commercial travellers ,left Goulburn on Monday evening in a motor car for Braidwood. When about 11…

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Better Roads. A New Association. Proposes Loans to Shires

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 2

The National Roads Association of Australia proposes inter hlia, to unite in one body all road users so as to secure reasonable and just legislation…

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Tales of "The Road." Told by Commercial Travellers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 4

The lot of the married commercial like that of the policeman, is not always a happy one. He sometimes scarcely knows his own children, and…

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Panic on a Tram

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 2

The breaking of an overhead electric cable on the Parramatta road last night was responsible for a panic on a tram with a…

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New South Wales Government Railways. Excursion To-sydney. Saturday, March 27

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 March 1920 · page 3

EXCURSION Tickets at Single Fare for the Double Journey (minimum rates 7/6 first class, and 5/- second class) will be issued to Sydney and intermediate…

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Safety Rules for Motorists

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 7

Most automobile accidents are due I to a lack of little common sense and to carelessness in complying with a few simple driving rules. It isn't…

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A Wire Road

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

In his book, "How Jerusalem was Taken," Mr. W. T. Massey, the official correspondent with the Palestine army, describes an ingenious device which…

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World-wide Motor Cycle Boom

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

Great as is the home demand for British motor-cycles, the recently-hold Olympia Show proves that it is not greater than the scramble from the…

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Science Notes. Science and Inventions. Largest Motor Ship

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

The motor ship Africa, recently launched at Copenhagen, is the largest internal combustion engined vessel yet constructed. Built for the East Asia…

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Motor-cycle Design

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 4

Commenting on the recent motor-cycle exhibition at Olympia, a London paper asserts that the general tendency of motor-cycle and side-car design is…

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Fatal Motor Lorry Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

A motor lorry carrying 27 passengers returning from a cricket match on the Darling Range, near Fremantle, got…

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Prisoner Jumps from Train

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 2

A prisoner named Murray jumped from a train near Auckland and was badly shaken. He was easily recaptured…

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A Stolen Motor Car Comes to Grief

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 2

A motor car, which is alleged to have been stolen, driven by two men, struck a moving tram in Pyrmont yesterday afternoon. Both occupants were seriously…

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Terrible Disaster. Indian Railway Wreck

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 3

One of the worst railway disasters recorded in India occurred on Monday, when the Allahabad-Dehradun express collided with a…

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Strathfield Railway Station Robbed

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 7

At the police court to-day James Sinclair, a baker was charged with the robbery of £966 from the Strathfield railway station on…

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