http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-229855349/view This is today's chat with one of my older generation seated at dining table while I type up. He was born 1910, and he still lives in home where his 'mum was delivered of him' at Oberon NSW. As a child I was very familiar with the Old Court House at Hartley.
'So those city folk with money could sojourn at the Hydro Majestic, and the others had to cope with lesser conditions at Wallacia.'
The Machattie family at Bathurst were the first to have their own motor car.
Each of the hotels had their own car and driver.
Tours were organised by the hotels.
The cars needed to stop for water for their radiators at top and bottom of Mt Vic (Mt Victoria), and earlier, back at Knapsack Hill (Lapstone, near the present RAAF Command).
Meals were ready at the restrooms at the cafes along the way.
The drive to Jenolan caves and back meant overnight stay at Jenolan, or if that was too expensive, at Hampton.
Remember, there was no Warragamba Dam and sometimes the Nepean was crossed by punt way upstream of the current bridges in Penrith and Emu Plains....
JM
