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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13810, 22 January 1909, Page 1

JOHN ;_ KEMPTHOfINE LAND AGENT.

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Motor Reliability Trial. > ORDEAL OF TEST. W the good-old days, when eonipari- to that time. The Waipara and Parsons were; made; by-rule-o£-tbumb hau- rivers had to ;be crossed—a task and many a :r biatant'", reputation was every driver regarded with trepidation, made by - "dint:of-!the goodj forceful and I<here was . some fakly stiff hillblowing -of-its owner. But in - mese climbing to do inthe /Weka Pass. This latter days the world has grown old " strict-testing " .further reduced this, and suspicious, and has a nasty sys- chances of all but a few leading cars, manner of demanding the why Then on the fourth day came the and the wherefore of any : claim to crowning /test of the trials—tho 113 supremacy made on behalf'of niau, mile: run to Akaroa and back. The horse or machine. .If a man'-thinks cars were driven at full-snced from t&at he can box. or row, or play ten- Barrv's Bay to the Hill Top "on the ren£, or shoot;better than,anyone else turn journey, for the hill-climbing spued h€?has the man who.has beaten test, and then journeyed over Gebbie's all* the others'before he becomes fani- pass to Governor's Bay, and thence extent worth mentioning, across Dyer's Pass, gliding down the and a : racehorse that cair'fc Yyih races steep-slope to Christchurcb. The route doesn't get • its photograph printed speaks, for itself. It was something very-often, even'if its owner runs a f or a C ar to get through such a jourspotting journal. The competitive test IK , y ' without a serious mishap. To everywhere, and everything, gQt through it under trial conditions from. 12m naval guns to the latest without losing marks was an aehieve-Df-and of'cocoa, can be tested and ac- me nt to ponder over. The 15 h.p. Talcurately'.compkred with.other articles bot, driven by Mr H: T. Adams, was offrfcs Mnd. There is nothing-like the awa rded the champion prize of the concqmpetitive test to settle jhttle dit- test. ' Another 15 h.p. Talbot* driven ferenc.es of opinion regarding merit, by Jlr A.. Kerr, came a good second; and'the poor .old, gullible British pub- , vhile tlie 25 h-P- Talbot driven by Mr he that is S0 j wept over and pitied is F n. Adams, scored third prize, com-to:-look around and take nor pleting one of the most decisive victise. ilfe wants the guarantee of the tories ever obtained in open competent on the-things it buys, and as «-ue tition by one make of car. The Taltests gfcpw,daily -more severe the result bots wonou t on all-round reliability, to-only twor classes oE foil-climbing qualities and economical people—fte pubhc, and the-people wh«., tfol consumption, notwithstanding Americans have it, _can dc- * hat tlie three cars were fall heavily the goods. . It is rather good laden wifch p assel igcrs on the hill thing.for,the .public that motor-cars cUmh Thc Talbofc team of four (a |, are_ susceptible to tests. It it were not t ing models) and the ' thirtv-two SPY* would-be simply a matter of the b £, t itors put up a big fight for ufost plausibte salesmen securing all three principal &'™ s of the trials. the sales. There * hardly auythme vc jYeard how Talbots swept the more plausible than a good fh w ■ thc t j, motor, salesman. Honesty beams iWi bK bright blue eyes_aud the deep per- . o J . Q s£nal interest he takes nvwarnmg you «uia not oft.the countlessibad.-points, in other cars an- Prfze for the best four-cylinder car »> o?\he -r from fo r The run, for reliability, test's the thing. A.test of motor-cars covcriag 2 8 jniles was * made in Christchurch during * the • gallon, at a cost of cighteeuChristmas week. -It was organised by cc bat a "record for any car! tge Canterbury Automobile. Associa- £ ; .£_ _ rp albot bas still to be tfon, and was the only official test tor ro(;ko ~ ed picking up a gold motouring cars conducted m-iSew- z.ca- non-stoo run and a special land for the year. Cars from all over u reliability. The 10-16 h.p. New.Zealand started. There were tropHy *r rcn J tbirty-sLs of. them, out of tlnrty-seveii, on the list of awards, entries, .and-they represented the best gecoud ou ly to the famous 15 *hit the cleverest mechanical mmds ck Talbot in the matter of economic Britain, France , and America The victory of -,o produce. The trials themselves iiere Ji^™ 1 c °n uofc Eur prise thc maker fa varying nature, On the first-day will bc on l y t]ie de<fair average tounng run w made oi an alreadv pro ven fact. to> Springfield and back a distance or to them, and has l*9«miles. been told in every country where car, m: that jaunt. On tiic sccmra .oay tested >: on their merits. The prize tnip through Rakaia Gorge t»a made a.c tested i the run covering U0 miles or so aml w™"" « i Black, Esq., the hundred or so water-races -«l.icli - cl.a mpon.ij 1 d . ig }, '; lad to be crossed gave the springs ot Waimate i Qamar lucre was muie ■.■'«" " - —" ■-"•■- rpj )erc ; s KOm g to bc a big demand ror on:thc homeward run. The petrol con- T lbofaj h * re Zealand in the sumption tost was made mi tlus day, f llt ure-bigger even than in the and. here again sonic ort e.most pio- t . MGSsrs AdanlSj Limited,-the New raising ears failed-to establish a rcpii- z , ld Agents, feeling generous after tation-for cheapness m ■ runiiiiig. On t))c contest are reducing.the. prices of the : third day there was a trip .to aiau Tal , )ot . so t ], a t everyone who can F|rry-and back, .a,-distance _of 160 - ff d b a . first . c l ass car will get miles. Tins was the heaviest trip up jfr _. t , TaUjot . % STAFF3RD STREET TIMARU.