BRITISH MOTOR CARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 5

BRITISH MOTOR CARS

DELEGATION'S EXPERIENCE A MARKET TO DEVELOP (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. "Conditions for motoring in New Zealand surpassed our expectations, and during our tour of 000 miles between Auckland and Dunedin we have been impressed with the remarkable roading progress," said Sir Archibald BoydOarpenter, head of the British motor ( delegation, before his departure for Australia yesterday. j "I believe that much of the complaint against the British car is founded on j experience five years old," said Mr. A. Penh, technical adviser to the delega- ' tion.. He was satisfied that New Zealand road conditions were on a parallel those existing in Australia. The lowest-priced types of British cars had . earned a reputation overseas, and many j of the cars in the £3OO to £4OO class ' were their own advertisement and would enjoy an increasing sale on their own merits. <ln the higher-powered class American cars certainly had an overwhelming price advantage. ■; Mr. Penn said the delegation would point %>ut to British manufacturers that there was every prospect of developing the overseas markets to absorb 90,000 British cars a year. This amount of export business was worth aiming for, and British enterprise was not defunct. The delegation will spend some time in Queensland and Tasmania, and will return to England, via. Java and Singa- ; pore, arriving in London in September.