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Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5962, 20 July 1912, Page 1

MOTOR CARS FOR EVERYONE. i?or aoino time past both British and French auluanobile manufacturers have been turning their attention to the problem of producing a reliable! two-seater motor-car at a price not to exceed £IOO. It has been ielt by these manufacturers that the, motoi'bicyclc is but a makeshift or a compromise, -and that if it should be possible to place on the imirnet iv small four-wheeled car a t approximately the same price as a motor-cycle the latter would (bid very few purchasers. Whether .this opiniorj is correct or not lias yet to be proved, but several British and Continental liruis have lately placed od the market shall three-wheeled or four-wheeled ears, built for tho most part on motorcycles lines, but with comfortabllc scats of the usual ear pattern. Olio of the cheapest an d most efficient ol these small cars has been devised by a French firm. It is a long, narrow, boat-like vehicle, mounted on four wire wheels, carrying two passengers, tandem fashion, with the driver at tho rear, and having an air-cooled motor in front. Tho drive is taken from the engine to a counter shaft by a chain, and from the countershaft to the rear axle by a couple of lether belts. The car steers with a wheel in the usual car fashion, and an arrangement for slackening the drivirg belts provides a simple but effective method of " de-clutching " tho engine. The car is said to be as easy to manage as a motor-cycle, it will carry two perse us instead of one, it offers a great deal more comfort, and in the matter of speed it cxoells standard cars costing six times the money. The jjrice is about the same as that of a first-clans motorcycle, and many French motor-cyclists are said to be disposing of thoir machines and adopting,tho now means of locomotion. It would appear that the motor-car, or a modified form of it, has now been brought within th t means of tho average citizen.

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