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READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from old and out of print books. These books are well worth tracking down. And op shops are good places to see what random books turn up. One book described some of the dodgy ploys used by a handful of shady car vendors on the Parramatta Road in […]
The Lowball, described in Up the Parramatta Road, which tells tales of dodgy methods used by some used car dealers, published 1985… The tale continues, of the lowball technique by a used car buyer: “Perhaps you didn’t know that there is a glut of these wagons on the market now, ex-government units, all with low […]
The highball was another technique cited in Up the Parramatta Road, by Brian Woodward and John Wright, published 1985… THE HIGHBALL One of the authors was a victim of the highball con. He said he was driving a Renault 12. He spotted a harbour blue Volkswagon Passat TS for $5000. Only two months previously he’d […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from interesting out of print books. If you’re lucky you might find these sorts of books in charity stores, but they would be hard to find even there. This issue features Malayan Climax, Experiences of an Australian girl in Malaya, 1940-42, by Carline Reid. It’s a fascinating wartime […]
On board a ship out of Singapore in WW2… In spite of the greater risk from bombs and shells, we were lucky to be able to board the ship from a wharf, some people had first to coerce launch men to take them out to the ships they were bound for, and then scale rope […]
Bombings from Japanese planes while on board a ship evacuating Singapore… No one could deny that it was very nasty hearing the zoom of the planes, then a loud voice calling “Get down, all down,” and bodies would prostrate themselves along the walls, under tables, as close as possible to anything that gave a modicum […]
Attending to the wounded on board… The Second Officer had his elbow shot away and wounds in the thigh, he was brought in and laid out near where I was sitting. Presently a doctor was found, an R.A.M.C. man I had known in Kuala Lumpur. He was very breezy and cheerful, and told me to […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples of interesting out of print books. This edition of readersvoice.com features Historical Sketches of Brisbane by John H.C. McClurg, published 1975. It tells about many of the now vanished features of Brisbane. Not many would have heard about the Brisbane suburb of Thorroldtown, which had its own railway […]
Thorroldtown and Lutwyche Stations… The author writes: Robert Thorrold returned to England, the land of his birth, early in the year 1892, to spend his retirement. The only historical link remaining nowadays to perpetuate the memory of this early day suburb is Thorrold Street which runs through the middle from east to west of the […]
The vanished Thorroldtown Station… The author of Historical Sketches of Brisbane continued: It was inevitable, from the economic standpoint that the Thorroldtown Railway Station would have to be closed and by 1890 this was done, the Lutwyche Station removed 300 yards northwards from Chalk street to its present position and renamed Wooloowin. The author wrote […]