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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 05, 1928
Page
4
This piece details makeshift repairs and tuning for early cars, focusing on wiring horn switches and cylinder head access. It covers threading wires, improving control layouts, and improvised tools to adjust valve gear and timing for Model T Ford vehicles.
A long, detailed description of a self contained industrial city built around the Dodge Brothers plant. The text explains how the factory area grew into a city named Dotie City with its own police, fire services, post office, rail system, housing, and welfare department, providing housing, parking, and daily necessities to workers four miles of rail lines, linked to Detroit.
The piece reports a Sunday test drive from Sydney to Queanbeyan covering 151 miles at an average 48 mph with 20.1 miles per leg segments. It highlights the absence of vibrations or road stress, the low ride fatigue, and praises Goodyear tyres and four wheel hydraulics for safe braking and steady handling.
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