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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1929

480 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 12 of 24

Motor Notes Comfort of Larger Tyres List Op Interchangeable Ones

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 4

Many Australian motorists with a view to obtaining greater comfort and longer tyre wear, fit larger sized tyres than the original equipment, when…

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Automobiles of the Future May Be Driven by Electric Motors

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 4

It has been predicted by the president of one of America’s leading automobile companies (Mr. G. M. Williams) that automobiles of the future will be…

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Alleged Train Attack

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 2

When the Cooma mail arrived at Goulburn early on Tuesday morning a girl passenger, aged 18, told the police a remarkable story, alleging…

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The Motor World

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 1

Motorists will rejoice, the N.R.M.A. says, to bear that the Main Roads Board has decided to proceed immediately with the reconstruction of…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A.

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 4

Free roadside service to members is now provided by the N.R.M.A. along the whole of the main North Coast highway from Sydney to the…

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Motor Notes An Anti-Rattle Device

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 4

Such joints as the knuckles on the ends of brake-rods are very prone to wear loose and set up a rattle, owing to their lack of protection from mud…

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The Tarago Road

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 2

It will come as good news to motorists particularly that the Shire Council has at last decided to do something towards improving the…

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Tarago Road Engineer's Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 5

The Shire Engineer, Mr. Boult, reported at last Saturday's meeting of the Shire Council as follows:— "In accordance With the…

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Tarago Road Council Moves at Last

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 7

In connection with the report of the Shire engineer dealing with the Tarago road, which is published else-where in this issue, the Council at…

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The Motor World

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 7

A motorist was sent to gaol for two months in Sydney last week for driving whilst under the influence of liquor. His car collided with a…

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Motor Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 4

To the student of automobile technique, who naturally makes it his hobby or his business to watch the cause and effect of the leading tendencies, that,…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A.

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 June 1929 · page 4

That women motorists are losing their reputation as reliable drivers is asserted by a Sydney District Court Judge, and this opinion is backed by…

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Shire Roads Engineer's Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 4

The report of Mr. Boult, read at last Saturday's meeting, was as followa:—"Main Roads.—Contract No. 1929/2…

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Electric Train Sensation Fuse Blows Out Girl Injured Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 1

The fuse on top of the electric motor of the leading carriage of a [?]rain at Milson’s Point blew out this morning with a terrific noise. The carriage…

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The Motor World

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 2

For the construction of the new Liverpool-Manchester road (Eng.) the Lancashire County Council has recommended the acceptance of a…

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A Motorst’s Pipe Rack

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 4

The practice indulged in by pipe-smoking motorists of knocking the a[?]hes out of their pipes through tapping on the paintwork, door handles…

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Motor Notes Care of the Bodywork

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 4

Few things are more annoying than the rattles and squeaks to which road vibration and dust give rise in course of time. A little care and attention…

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[?] Flat Railway

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 6

Mr. W. W. Hedges, M.L.A., writing to the editor of the "Review," says: "I have to advise that the Public Works Committee will take evidence…

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Railway to Captain’s Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 2

A public meeting was held in the Council Chambers last night in regard to the proposed railway line to Captain’s Flat. Alderman Freebody,…

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Railway Passenger Fined

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 2

For travelling in a first-class carriage on a second-class ticket between Moss Vale and Yass on the night of April 11, Donald Cullon was at Goulburn Police…

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