A MOTOR CAR OF GREAT POSSIBILITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 120, 6 May 1911, Page 9

A MOTOR CAR OF GREAT POSSIBILITIES.

■ THE E.M.F. PRODUCTIONS. i — ■— ■ The Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., i Hastings, have just landed one of i the famous E.M.F. 5-seater full touring cars. In selecting this American car the Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., have been most careful, and after a searching examination they claim that this model is the finest American production that has been imported into New Zealand. It has been the aim of the company to market an American car that embraced• among its features the most important in motor-car construction, namely, accessibility. Freedom from fakes has evidently been the object of Flanders, the designer, and these cars can safely be called AngloAmerican.

A technical description of the E.M.F. car will show that most of the peculiarities that the majority of American cars are blessed with are eliminated. Great attention has been paid in regard to the design ; accessibility, transmission gearing, and ignition are of plain continental type, and a few details will no doubt come as a surprise to the reader. Engine, 4 cylinder 4 cycle, cylinders cast in pairs; valves, all on one side, single cam shaft. Cooling, water by large centrifugal pumps and fan. Gears, ordinary continental type of sliding gears, three speeds, forward and reverse with gate change. Ignition, dual, high-tension magneto with accumulators and coil. Clutch, aluminium leather cone clutch fitted with engaging springs and ordinary type fly-wheel. Chassis, pressed steel. Springs, full elliptic on rear wheels, and half elliptic on front wheels. “H” section front axle. Tappets, fibre inlaid. Millimeter rims fitted with 815 x 105 Michelin tyres. It will be seen from the above that these specifications fit in with the best principles of English and Continental makes, and taken m conjunction with the weight, 17/ cwt., all in with 16 gallons of petrol, cape, cart hood, wind screen. 5 lamps, jack, tools, etc., it is no wonder that this car has already established a reputation as a mountain climber. The ear the Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., have now in Hastings has made its acquaintance with the mountains and river beds of Canterbury. She has been driven over the steepest grades and the rockiest river beds the province can boast of. and does the work as she was built for it.

The E.M.F. is a wonderful mountain climber, and it lias been proved she can surmount any grade her tyres can hang on to, and d'rectly she came off the boat sir fhmbr■<’ 1 1 <■ notorious Tuki I'uki zig-zf-g or b»’> gear. It is very doubtful if tms performance has ever been accomplished before even by 60-h.p. cars. She is even more: she is a wheeled ‘‘river boat”; she ploughs through shingle and gravel axle high without any more fuss or noise than if she were on good macadam. It is the big 30-h.p. engine that does the work. She is made to stand the (’iformoiis strain necessary to get through tight places, and she is silently powerful all the time. She has been given a big test, and has proved herself test proof. This is the kind of car the Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., are now handling. They are. wonderfully cheap, too, considering their quality. The E.M.F. 5-seater 30-h.p., with Cape cart hood, wind screen, 5 lamps, 2 ignitions, and Michelin 815 x 105 tyres, jack, pump, tools, etc., sells at £375 complete, and the Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., claim that no better value has ever been offered in the Dominion . There are only two E.M.F. cars in the whole of New Zealand just now, but judging from the number of orders already booked, the E.M.F. has a stunning good season in front of it.

The E.M.F. has a smaller sister, called the Flanders, a 20-h.p. twoseater car, which is just as good as its elder sister and just as complete, and sells at £276 net; and these will shortly become as popular as the trusty Triumph motor bicycles, for which the Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., are famous.*