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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 02, 1928
Page
5
A rugged weekend journey by Jacky O Rourke and Mr T along rugged Cairns roads in a Harley. The party faced two hour delays, wheel leaks, slow progress past Coolgerrt and Cookarra Marra, rough tracks, and shifting routes. They logged about 250 miles with various repairs and delays before returning to Cairns.
The travelers, blocked by sidecar obstructions and fading light, press on toward a prospector named Bill Sloan. After a long day of trekking and near exhaustion, they reach Sloan’s camp where they rest and restore.
A confused OCR summary describes innovations in gear changing devices for automobiles. It mentions mechanisms that assist timid gear changers by decelerating the engine or altering wheel action, including terms like Parley gear and clutch-free systems. It notes experiments with pinion changes and free-wheeling actions affecting drive shaft coupling.
The article discusses Weymann fabric bodies and all steel designs, comparing rigidity, flexibility, and joining methods. It notes that neither technology fully supersedes the other, with old coachwork fading yet not obsolete. It outlines a later all steel approach using rubber-moulded edges for flex.
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