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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1928

426 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 14 of 22

Outsize in Motors for Goodyear Factory Too Large for Normal Railway Handling

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 3

The above photo shows a recent N.S.W. railway scene. The enormous case on the truck contains a big motor for the factory of The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (Australia) Ltd., at Granville, N.S.W. This motor was so much wider than the N.S.W. Standard Railway Guage…

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Motor Notes Impromptu Thin Washers

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 3

Sometimes a very thin washed is required to take up a small amount of wear at some particular part of the car. It is quite impracticable to file…

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Famous Author Discusses Tramps

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 6

Jim Tully, author of “Beggars of Life,” the famous tramp story which is being made into a Paramount picture, has some interestig remarks to…

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Alleged Illegal Use of Motor Car

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 2

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the local Police Court yesterday afternoon, John William Haslam (17) was charged with having at Canberra…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. reports that the Main Roads Board has handed back to the councils concerned the farcies plying across the Hunter River…

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Shire Roads Engineer's Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 September 1928 · page 3

At yesterday's meeting of the Shire Council the engineer, Mr. A. Gracie, submitted the following report:- "The following contracts have been…

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The Motor World

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 September 1928 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. reports that the Main Roads Board has banded back to the Councils concerned the ferries plying across the Hunter River at…

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Motor Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 September 1928 · page 2

Alter a most interesting and enjoyable motor trip, of 7 weeks, covering 6000 miles, a party of Victorian tourists returned to Melbourne…

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Tarago Road

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 6

For some time past the Tallaganda Shire Council has been urging that the Tarago road should be treated as a Federal Aids Vote road. A final…

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The Better Farming Train

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 4

The Better Farming Train, which recently completed a most successful tour of the South-Western district, is now in depot at Lockhart, where…

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Toll of the Road

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 2

Two men, named William Williams, of Fairfield, and Ernest Hurley, of Fairfield, were killed at the Albion Park railway station last night when…

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Toll of the Motor

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 2

Nineteen spectators were killed and 26 injured when a racing car overturned in the European Grand Prix race at the Monza (Milan) track…

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Producer Gas Motors Country Party Intersected

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 4

“The Country Party is keenly interested in the investigation being carried out by the Development and Migration Commission regarding the…

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Better Farming Train

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 2

Yesterday, Mr. C. E. Houghton, manager of the Better Farming Train was in Queanbeyan, making final arrangements for the visit of the Train…

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Importance of Good Health Health Department’s Contribution to Better Farming Train

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 2

The Health Departments contribution to the Better Farming Train; though comparatively small in extent is full of interest. Nothing concerns…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 4

Young Municipal Council (says the N.R.M.A.) has formulated a scheme for the reconstruction of the Wombat Road and to construct a new bridge…

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Motor Notes A Mud-Guard Squeak

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 4

A squeak which took a long while to locate by reason of its resembling one from spring shackles was eventually found to arise from the line…

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Railway Passengers To the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 1

Sir,—I wonder how much longer passengers arriving at Queanbeyan are to be asked to pay 2/- for a lift down to the town. I arrived the other…

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The Tarago Road

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 1

THE Federal authorities have decided that this road is not one coming within the four corners of the Federal Roads Act; that is to say it…

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Stringy Bark Hill Deviation of Road Promised

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 2

Mr. T. J. Kelly, President of the Yarrowlumia Shire Council, who is at present in Sydney, recently interviewed the Main Roads Board and…

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