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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17940, 7 December 1923, Page 5

BaUtaWi? information 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, hut 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 jotf and thrown on the "dole." It has to he a pretty good, Yankee, therefore, that can overcome my initial prejudice; hut 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 heing the very "best car in the world as makes no difference. This is heavy praise, I know, hut it can't he 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 find a fault. It is as docile as an angel, hut goes .like the very devil. It is supremely well sprung, 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 fuss 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 up, at a 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 the 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 life 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 the best car in the world—l doubt if any car is—but it is easily amongst the first half-dozen at a figure which has hitherto been associated with, comparatively speaking, mediocrity. Vide IV. G. Ashlon, motor car criiic jor the " Taller, " dated April / Ith, 1923. The New "PACKARD Track Performance, 90 miles per hour. Petrol Consumption, 20 miles per gallon link ®axts Himitrii, Agents The " PACKARDin several classical models, is now on view, and we invite your inspection at our SHOWROOMS, VICTORIA SQUARE Special Representative : LEO W. HAY WARD

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