Motor-boat Club. General Meeting
The general monthly meeting of the Motor-boat Club was held in the Sport Club on Thursday evening. There was good attendance, and the Commodore…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
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Motoring Notes
A meeting of the Automobile Club of Australia has been called for to-morrow night at Usher's Metropolitan Hotel. The business is the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Trucks Derailed. Cootamundra
The derailment of several trucks and stoppage of the traffic for three hours occurred at Stratton's Siding to-day, through a goods train, which was shunting, breaking away on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Turbine Motor. Fifty Miles an Hour Through the Water
A home journal gives particulars of an invention, which, according to the inventor, is going to supersede all two and four cycle motors. The article is as follows:—"By his discovery of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Boat Club. Presentation of a 50-Guinea Cup
Mr. C. H. Gorrick, acting on behalf of the Standard Motor Construction Company of New Jersey, U.S.A., has offered the Motor Boat Club of New South Wales a 50-guinea challenge cup, to be competed for as a…
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Recently there appeared an article in the Cycling and Motoring column relating to the above. It was then stated that Messrs. Renault and Co., the French manufacturers, had lately laid claim to be the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cycling and Motoring. Sydney Bicycle Club
In accordance with the new rules recently adopted and made compulsory by the new Liquor Act, the Sydney B.C. has sent in an application for registration, and members are reminded that subscriptions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Refreshment at Newcastle
Our northern Coalopolis is rather a drouthy city; temperature, physical conditions, atmospheric influence, and local industries combine to make it so. The climate is warm…
Continued on Trove, page 351 →The Victorian Railway Accident
The alarming accident which occurred to an excursion train on the way to Gembrook on Sunday, the 28th ult., was described in our issue of last week. This week we are enabled to give some illustrations relating to it. The excursionists left Melbourne at 11.10 a.m. Later, 240 in number, they changed on to the narrow gauge 2ft 6in line at Ferntree Gully for Gembrook. They were packed into eight covered trucks and…
Continued on Trove, page 366 →Tram Troubadours. "Scotty" Campbell
Inspector Scotty walks along With mo curled quite a treat, He is the sort of haughty toff One doesn't often meet…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wonderful Record. Put Up by a Motor Car One Mile in 28 SECONDS. 128 Miles an Hour. London, Tuesday, 3.10 p.m
An automobilist named Marriott, the driver of a steam automobile at Florida (U.S.A.), covered one mile in 28sec. [One mile in 28sec. works out at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Millers. Object to Railway Charges
A deputation of millers of the western and south-western districts waited upon the Premier yesterday and protested against the increase in the "breaking journey" rate from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Omnibuses
The motor omnibuses, from Potts Point to Darlinghurst have not so far been a financial success. Their daily earnings are reported as averaging from £3 to £4, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motoring. Gordon-bennett Cup
While an international conference of the automobile clubs of Europe has decided that there shall be no Gordon-Bennett Cup race, this year, the race is not aba[?]daned for ever, for another conference is to be held in…
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DENILIQUIN, Tuesday. -- The 63rd half-yearly meeting of the Deniliquin-Moama Railway Company was held here to-day, Mr. George Simmie presiding. The secretary (Mr. Tennant) read the report and balance-sheet,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling. League of Wheelmen
A special meeting of the council of the league held at the rooms on Monday night. The object of the meeting was to consider an appeal from T. Larcombe, the Goulburn rider, whose protest against Chud…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tramway Mismanagement. to the Editor
Sir,-- The Commissioners of Tramways and Railways, not being content with charging the residents and general public travelling to Rose and Watson's Bays one hundred per cent. more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tourist Trams
According to the Railway Commissioners the tourist trams are turning out well. The tours are becoming popular, and especially the run to La Perouse and Botany. At the present…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Motor Omnibus
The advent of the motor omnibus has not been a success under the management of the Railway Commissioners. The 'buses have been running between Potts Point and William-street and…
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PENRITH, Tuesday. -- A motor-car, containing two ladies and two gentlemen, had a miraculous escape from serious injury yesterday afternoon. The aprty was coming down…
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