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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 In the Days When Cob and Co. Were King of the Roads : Romance of Australia's Coaching Era
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This, the fifteenth in a series on pioneers and explorers, tells the story of Cobb and Co. in Australia. The company was set up to run passengers from Melbourne to Sydney via the goldfields. It took on the mail services and flourished until the advent of the railway.

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    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 8 July 1937 Z1720539 1937 newspaper issue 1937 pg. 3,36
Last amended 31 Aug 2010 17:59:53
Subjects:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Ovens, Myrtleford area, Myrtleford - Bright - Mount Beauty area, North East Victoria, Victoria,
  • Mount Alexander, Bendigo area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland,
  • Ipswich area, South East Queensland, Queensland,
  • Toowoomba area, Darling Downs, Queensland,
  • 1863-1924
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