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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1928

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 3

Lack of noise on the Edinburgh tramways is due to the fact that gears and pinions of the cars are made of nickel chrome steel, heat…

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Motor Lorry Accident Yass Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 2

On Saturday last, at 7.30 p.m., Mr. R. J. Hannah, accompanied by Messrs. Frank Denny and William Denny (a visitor from Barellan) was driving…

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Motor Notes Oil the Valve Gear

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 4

One disadvantage of many overhead valve models is that when wear sets in the valve gear becomes very noisy. In most modern engines of…

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Railway Sleepers Scarcity Foreseen

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 6

A note of warning regarding future suplies of railway sleepers was sounded by Mr. Lane-Poole, Inspector-General of Forests, in a…

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Motor Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 6

Allowing for this State’s greater density of population, especially in Sydney, the number of motor accidents in New South Wales compares…

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Shell Motorists’ Index

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 5

The above has been issued by the British Imperial Oil Co. Ltd. and contains much information that will provide help in the many little…

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Braidwood-queanbeyan Road

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 2

The Shire engineer at last meeting advocated the expenditure of some of the main roads grant for the Braidwood-Queanbeyan road on repairing…

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The Shire Road Expenditure

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 1

NOTWITHSTANDING an increased revenue from rates and a largely increased endowment from the Government, it now appears that the…

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Toll of the Motor Car

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 7

Four women were killed and a number of other persons seriously injured in motor accidents in Melbourne during the week-end. In Sydney there…

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Motor Collision at Canberra

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 16 February 1928 · page 1

G. Parkes Lette v. Frank l Butler. Claim for £100 damages in consequence of injury and loss sustained as the result of a collision between a…

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Train Through a Bridge

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 2

A portion of a train on the Adelaide Broken Hill line fell into a creek through a bridge collapsing. The fireman was killed, but the driver,…

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Telegraphic News Sydney Thursday, 4 p.m. Main Roads a State Charge

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 2

The Minister for Local Government has prepared a comprehensive roads policy. He said yesterday that Local Government bodies should be relieved…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 3

A local suggestion has been made to Bellingen Shire Council, says the N.R.M.A., that the traffic bridge at Urunga over the Bellinger River…

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Motor Notes The Trial Run

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 4

The big problem in buying a new car is to sell the old one at the best price obtainable, and usually, this is to be secured by advertising it…

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Motor Notes Stock Car Interest 1927 in Retrospect

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 3

Glancing back over 1927, the unofficial historians of the automotive industry are finding that the revival of interest in stock car racing has…

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Accidents on Canberra Roads Not Due to Road Defects

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 2

Mr. J. A. Perkins, Member for Eden-Monaro, has received from the Minister for: Home[?]and Territories, the following letter:—…

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Motorist Caught in Flooded Creek

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 4

Last Friday roads leading to Canberra were more or less flooded, and many creeks overflowed. Cars were held up for hours on the Cotter…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. has been informed that the Main Roads Board and the Wollondilly Shire Council have arranged for the construction of a…

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Motors Notes Useful Pedal Pads

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 3

There are still too few cars in which proper provision is made to prevent dust and cold air from entering the front compartment…

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Fatal Motor Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 1

Miss Vera Wray, (25), a well-known Goulburn girl died in the Goulburn Hospital about 5 o’clock on Sunday afternoon from terrible…

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