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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1934

378 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 13 of 19

What Most Motorists Desire

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 4

It is rather surprising that so much attention in being focussed on the speed of the latest in cars in view of the fact that in plebiscite taken overseas…

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Severe Motor-car Contest

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 4

One of the greatest motor car contests annually decided in Europe, conducted on reliability lines with standard cars, equipped with mudguards,…

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Visiting Permits for Motorists Travelling Inter-state

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 4

A commendable movement to facilitate the issue of permits to motorists travelling inter-State is announced—the three States interested being New…

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Motor Notes Long-distance Motor Services for Passengers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 4

Motor coach long distance passenger transportation is developing rapidly overseas. In view of its wide spaces. some of the long distance motor…

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Coopenook Bridge Open

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 August 1934 · page 5

The bridge over the Lansdowne River at Coopernook, on Pacific Highway, between Taree aud Port Macquarie, is now open for traffic…

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Complaint Concerning a Culvert "Retrograde Step in Road Construction"

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 August 1934 · page 4

A petition was read trout a number of ratepayers and others asking for some repairs to Braldwood-Mongarlowe road at the 4-mile peg. A…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Prince's Highway Delays

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 August 1934 · page 8

Following on many delays to motorists on the Prince's Highway, caused by the condition of several temporary bridges, the N.R.M.A…

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Ten Commandments of Motoring

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 August 1934 · page 6

Thou shalt have one driver, and that one a good one, at the wheel. Thou shalt not make false traffic signals, false laws, nor serve them…

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Motor Collision Man Arrested

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1934 · page 1

Shortly after two o'clock this afternoon there was a motor collision on the Queanbeyan-Canbera Road on the Canberra side of the overhead bridge. A…

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The Motor World News and Notes Prom the N.R.M.A. Leave Well Alone

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 August 1934 · page 3

To the novice who has been warned about "tinkering" and yet is afraid that some important point may be neglected, here is a useful hint. If…

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Drunken Motor Driver Fined £25

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 August 1934 · page 2

As a sequel to the accident on the Queanbeyan Road, at a point about a mile within the Federal Territory, on Tuesday, when a motor utility truck,…

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Our Roads

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 2

A prominent Braidwood man, during a conversation with our reporter, said:—"Quite a lot of capital was made at the amalgamation inquiry…

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Train Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 7

BERLIN.—When two trains collided at Halle station two persons were killed, 17 injured, and 143 slightly injured…

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Motor Hints "Revving" and Smooth Starting

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 8

It is a singular fuel that many otherwise competent drivers should betray harmful incompetence in the manner in which they start their…

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The Railways Deficit Employment Figures

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 2

“Opponents of the Stevens-Bruxner Government not infrequently criticise its policy regarding railways,” states the weekly bulletin of the State…

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Bridge Wanted Over Araluen Creek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 August 1934 · page 2

The succession of floods recently experienced in this district have been responsible for many cases of hardship and distress. Those people…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Preserving Beauty Spots

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 August 1934 · page 3

In an endeavor to induce the Government to preserve the State's beauty spots, many of which are threatened with destruction, the N.R.M.A. has…

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Motor Notes Developed Power and Harsh Driving

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 August 1934 · page 4

Not a few engineers of high standing have in the course of their writings and lectures uttered a warning to owner-drivers against the possible…

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Motor Hints High Speed Compression Ignition Engines

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 5

It has been our practice for a long time to keep readers apprised of every now development which has occurred in Australia with regard to the…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 4

To the novice who has been warned about “tinkering” and yet is afraid that some important point may be neglected, here is a useful hint. If…

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