AS OTHERS SEE US

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

AS OTHERS SEE US

According to the Autocar the automobile industry in New Zealand has much to thank the fair sex for. “The number of girls” it states, “who drive their own cars is said to be responsible for much of the phenomenal sales increase in New Zealand in 1929. It is fashionable to go shopping, or to tennis, golf, or bathing by car. Father wants his car for business, hence there are two cars per family, generally including a smaller car for the women. A 20-YEAR OLD VETERAN. The Belfast agents of the Canadian Pacific Railway have still in daily use a motor vehicle which has given over twenty years’ service. This vehicle is a 12-h.p. Sunbeam, and was built in 1909. After being in use for many years as a private car, during which it covered a big mileage, the original body was taken off and a new one fitted for the conveyance of baggage to Canadian Pacific steamers at the docks. The car is still in daily use for this purpose, and thousands of tons of gage leaving Belfast for Canada have been carried on it to the docks. Twenty years is a long period for any motor vehicle to be continually in use, but this Sunbeam still runs with unfailing reliability—a fine tribute to the quality of its construction, particularly as this car was originally designed solely for use as a private car and not for the heavier work which has been imposed upon it during its life as a commercial vehicle.