MOTOR CYCLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 9

MOTOR CYCLES.

XIKPHAVS Ni:w (.'ABACI.. Motorcv. lists will he pb-ascl lo hear thai Mr. Allien Meplian. the well known owner iinil manager of t.he Kden t'ycle am! Motor Work.-. Mount Kden ll.iad. is opening a new -an,l up-to-dalo garage in High Street, at the .truer of Durham Street. Pa-!, wilh an e.xperl stall' of assistants. Tlic li it ■ i ha.- In.ill up a populu.l* anil increasing i-.uin-vtion. which lias now I»-,-,. inc -.. large thai these new, premises had to be obtained. Tin- gar age in Jligh Street, wlii-h will Is- opened on .Monday next. .lune I. will In- one of the. tines! of it- kind in the Auckland district, ami all interested ill motor cycles should make a. point of visiting the new premises at an early dale. The garage will be ins- to motor-cveliesl.s. A special feature h:is been made of the works-op. which has been elaborately lilted out to ln.i't every icijiiirement. of the motorist nnd cyclist. Also a very large and varied stock, of aeces_*irie.>e; for motor-cycles and cycles may l>e> obtained lure. Mr. \. Mephan is. the manufacturer ~f liie well known King motorcycles, which have won several priws in New /.calami. This machine is cnstnicted enlirelv in the tirm's workshops. and is made specially- to suit Xoxv Zenland roads. being "durable as well ns handsome. Il is often found that an imported machine. i hough perfectly adaptable to the peculiarities i genera lly good ones I ol' the mad.- ol t.he count rv i„ which il I- made, i- hardly suitable to the rougher nature of our roads. In constructing the King. Ilien-fore. ihe local manufacturer.-, are- able lo strengthen just those pans winch ihc\ kno\v are more liable to !»• affected. The agencies which arc held by Mr. Mephan include some of the tine-t makes of motor-cycles, including the Itudge. ihe Centaur, and the ('onnaught two-sTroko. Quite recently the former make won the t.turist.s-trophy race in the Isle of Man. and also the championships at -Napier and Auckland, the rider of the Budge machine in the latter championship being Mr. Mephan himself. The- be-, makes of ordinary pedal bicycles arc also stocked —the llovornor. U.5.A... Royal Knfiel.l. St- (leorge. and the King town ma.kri. The garage of the Kden ( yrle and Motor Works in Mount Kden Bond will be eon timied as hofevre.