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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17807, 5 July 1923, Page 3

VIEWS OF A RECOGNISED WORLD EXPERT A WONDERFUL TRIBUTE Generally speaking lam not enamoured of American cars. They are amazingly cheap, absurdly complete, and do a most mighty lot of things in an effortless sort of way, hut most of them fail to please me, still less to make me enthusiastic. It is true that engineering as a science knows no nationality, but motor cars to my mind represent engineering as a-trade; and since British trade has something to do with the income tax that I unsuccessfully try to avoid, I only see in most American importations another British workman pushed out of his job and thrown on the "dole." It has to he a pretty good Yankee, therefore, that can overcome my initial prejudice; but when after doing that it contrives to fill me with an uncontrollable lust for possession, then I can assure you it is something right out of the common rut. I wish I could afford to buy a Single-Six Packard. It costs something under nine hundred pounds, and is, in my humble opinion, as near being the very best car in the world as makes no difference. This is heavy praise, I know, but it can't be helped—l must speak as I find. If I had leisure and one of these cars, I would like to drive it round Coventry and Birmingham and Manchester, and other places where motor cars are mostly made, and take British managing directors out for a run, just to show them you understand. The plain fact is that this is a car In which I simply cannot flu* a fault. It is as docile as an angel, but goes like the very devil. It is supremely well 3prung, it is uncannily silent, it is a miser on petrol, it steers no heavier than a wisp of cigarette smoke, it climbs like a chamois —in short, it just does anything that it should do, and does most things a good deal better than you would think possible. Mind you, it is not one of these under-geared contraptions, for without any iuss or flurry it will do its modest seventy on the level, nor has it got a huge engine, yet it will do White Hill, Henley, with four top, at ft minimum of twenty-five miles an hour. The Hindhead brings it down to about fifty-five! ' The Single-Six is, of course, not to be confused with tho Twin-Six Yes, believe me, people, the six-cylinder Packard is a very wonderful car indeed. I wish it were made in this country, and I can't for the lift of me see why it shouldn't be, though, owing to the higher cost of raw materials over here, it would naturally come out more expensive. I heartily wish the Packard were British. It is NOT tho best car in the world—l doubt if any car is—but it easily amongst the first half-dosen, at a figure which has hitherto been associated with, comparatively speaking, mediocrity. are mostly maae, auu ta.u.« x>i"»" m*.**™** -«•- «w» «. just to Show them you understand. Vide W. G. Aihton, motor car crllte for the "Taller, dated April tlth, 1923. The New " PACKARD"—Track Performance. 90 miles per hour. Petrol Consumption. 20 miles per gallon Oar first ''PACKARD" has just landed, and we invite your inspection at our SHOWROOMS, VICTORIA SQUARE

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A novel landmark for Williamstown (Meibuuniej, one tnat is visiDie tor nines, Uas appeared at. Jtiectra street jiecliodist l/jjurcn, in tiie snap© of a iiUfeO eiectricaLy-nghted cross. It is set on a white background, with two sets of coloured liguis, and shines in different directions, liecently the Rev. D.ttertck was inducted superintendent of tne Williamstown circuit. Just betaking charge he finished a tour of America, and i;as returned impressed with the novel methods adopted in the United States to attract worshippers to religious services. He contends that the innovation constitutes a reminder to all who pass by of those principles anii ideals ior which the Cross has always stood.