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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1938

370 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 19

The Old Rough Rider No Time for Motor Cars (To the Editor of the "Review")

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 5

Sir,-I want to thank you for delivering my challenge to Mr. Ludie Gardiner, the old rough rider who is going to give an exhibition at…

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Letter to Editor Trucking Yards—captain’s Flat Railway

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 2

Sir,—The stockowners of this district are making Application to the Railway Commissioners for trucking yards at a point located at the…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 3

In America last year it was estimated at the beginning of the year that 50,000 caravans would be sold during the season. As it happens figures…

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Captain's Flat Railway Line

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 March 1938 · page 2

During last week 28 Goulburn men left that city to take up employment on the building of the railway line from Bungendore to Captain's Flat…

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Motor Service at the Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 March 1938 · page 1

The N.R.M.A. is making special arrangements to serve country motorists visiting the Easter Show. The association's permanent pavilion will…

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Motorist Heavily Fined

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 March 1938 · page 4

At Wollongong Police Court, Cecil Axam was fined £10, in default 20 days’ imprisonment, and was debarred from holding a drivers’ licence for three…

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Dangerous Road Formation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 3
Also in The Braidwood Review and District Advocate

Loco[?]e gravel, on roads and particularly on curved sections of the highways is a source of danger not fully realised by motorists. Several fatal…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.r.m.a.“slightly Used” Cars

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 4

An enterprising American has invented a new racket. He goes around to cities where the taxicabs have just run their speedometers right round the…

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Motor Headlamps Good Reflectors Essential

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 4

As the result of experiments with various plated surfaces in respect to their reflective characteristics in the headlamps of automobiles, an…

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The Farley Railway Station Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 2

Thomas Gibson (18), Kemmell Coleman (17) and William Date (17) appeared before the Maitland Police Court to-day on a charge of having…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. A Helping Hand

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 3

In an effort to preserve the surface of the streets and to reduce traffic noises the Vienna Municipality is prepared to consider bearing up to…

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Motor Driver’s Licence Cancelled

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 2

At the Canberra Police Court on Wednesday, Mr. Britz, P.M., imposed a fine of £4 on Samuel, George Southwell of Ainslie, and ordered that his driver’s…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 3

In an effort to preserve the surface the streets and to reduce traffic noises the Vienna Municipality is prepared to consider bearing up to…

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Driving on Flooded Roads

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 8

To those unacquainted with driving through flooded areas the following advice, which is issued by the Royal Automobile Club of Australia,…

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Road Accidents Speed, Carelessness and Drink As Causes

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 5

The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) said last week that an analysis he had prepared showed that excessive speed, the…

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Sleepy Motorist Deemed Guilty of Negligent Driving

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 2

Mr. Arnold, magistrate in the Paddington Court, ruled in effect that a motorist who fell asleep at the wheel while his car was in motion was guilty…

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Trespassed on Railway Premises And Used Indecent Language Had Been Drinking Methylated Spirits

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 3

Andrew Frederick Davis was charged before Messrs. C. W; English and G. O’Hanlon, J’s.P, at the Police Court on Monday with having trespassed on…

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Disfiguring Roads Commissioner’s Comments on Advertising

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 4

Addressing the engineers’ conference in Sydney, on Tuesday, the Main Roads Commissioner (Mr. H. H. Newell) condemned indiscriminate…

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Bungendore Road to Captain’s Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 3

At the instance of the Bungendore Progress Association, Councillor E. Gardner inquired at the Shire Council meeting why the Shire Clerk had…

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