The Albion Commercial and Pleasure Cars.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 1, 2 November 1908, Page 26

The Albion Commercial and Pleasure Cars.

Mr. Hamilton Grapes has just returned from a business trip to the Old Countiy and the Continent, where he devoted a considerable amount of attention to the motor car, both as a business and pleasure \ehicle. It will be remembered that Mr. Grapes has been for some time the New Zealand representative of the Albion Motor Co., and was mnning a son ice of cars at Rotorua. The new Albion cars aie well maintaining the reputation of the older models, and have received an immense patronage the world over for commercial purposes particularly ; the Albion Co. are specialists, and devote their attention to one model only, 16-20 h p , which fulfils all necessary lequisites. The New Zealand Government are users of Albions for tourist purposes, and have four in use between Culverden and Hamner; these are fitted with char-a-banc bodies and carry twelve passengers. The daily run is farom Culverden to Hamner and back, a distance of 48 miles

It is a most popular trip, and the Albion cars usually take a full complement of sight-seers and their baggage, etc. The Government have since placed an ordei with Mr. Hamilton Grapes for a 16-passenger vehicle. In view of the inclination of the Postal authontiet, here to collect the mails by motor, it is interesting to learn that the Federal Government of Australia, after experimenting with various makes of car, have ordered Albion for the Melbourne service, and intend to instal similai vehicles thioughont the various centres in the Commonwealth.