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BILL'S CORNER - AUSTRALIAN RACING
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 Bill's
Corner represents a whole continent on the Motorsnippets' Map of
the World - an exciting area where everything is judged by New World
standards. The Editor is Bill
Hunter, pictured here demonstrating that life in Australia is
not all about motorsport, but there are other things as well. Bill’s
father was a speedway rider at the old Maroubra Speedway in Sydney.
As a schoolboy in Bathurst - ‘Home of the Australian Grand Prix’,
he felt the call of car racing, but after crashing a 500 cc motorbike,
a Singer 4A, a Sunbeam Talbot 90, and an Abarth Fiat, he concluded
that he had mistaken the gesture given him by fate’s finger. At
university he trained as a teacher. He worked in Melbourne and Sydney,
the London County Council, and an American school in France. He
served in the Victorian Railways as Training and Development Manager,
and then took a permanent teaching position at the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology University. Ladies and Gentlemen - Bill's
Corner!
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Editorial:
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Musique des classiques
(10 Feb 2005)
J'ai recu ce matin (heure australienne) un courriel de Vianney Frain plein de sons
de voitures de toute espece - classiques et modernes.
Ca vaut la peine de faire une visite.
http://vianney-frain.com/patrimoine_sonore_vianney_frain/voitures.php ....to
see the rest click here!
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Adelaide to Darwin Under the Bottom of the Sea
- 26 Aug 2005
Whilst travelling along a 3000 km bitumen road through the dead heart of Australia, I learned that I was about 200 m below an ancient sea floor.
Until WWII, this road was a rock-strewn track. Only camels and the toughest and strongest of motor vehicles could ever tackle it. The Afghan camel drivers are remembered these days because the Adelaide to Darwin railway train is called the ‘Ghan’. A great collection of the old motor vehicles are respected and preserved in the Transport Hall of Fame near Alice Springs. Some of the exhibits are shown in our photographs.
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Historic Winton -- May 28/29 2005
- 16 Jun 2005
I guess all sports have their legends. It's fascinating going back over the exploits of the great old-timers. You come across an old magazine, a curled up photograph, or a movie recorded on a hand-cranked camera, and you shake your head in wonder. The history of motor sport has been well recorded for over a century.
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Steam Cars in Australia
- 01 May 2005
By 1820, steam engines were, with one notable exception, Jacks of all trades. They could pump water, power ships, generate electricity, spin cotton, grind grain, mass produce pottery, mill coffee and shear sheep. Steam engines powered the Industrial Revolution, and changed the world.
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Historic Motor Racing at Phillip Island, February 2005
- 05 Mar 2005
After a 180 km trip down from Melbourne, you reach Phillip Island by crossing a bridge over the swirling tides of Bass Strait. Road signs point the way to the Penguin Parade, Seal Rocks, and the Grand Prix Circuit. Last weekend, seven days out from the Australian Grand Prix, traffic taking the road to the Grand Prix circuit was heavy. Everyone was heading for the 16th annual running of the Phillip Island Historic Motor Race meeting.
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