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SPECIAL TO MAIL CONTRACTORS

To the mail contractor the modern motor-car offers a solution of many difficulties and handicaps inherent in tho use of horse-drawn vehicles. Tho motor is immeasurably more speedy, and in these Litter days considerably more reliable and economical than the best of horseflesh. With a good modern car like tho Studebaker or Talbot motor, delivery of mails means absolute immunity from penalties. We have a 30-h.p. Stuclebaker-E.M.F., five-seater touring car for saie at present. This car has been used a.s a demonstration car, and is in perfect condition. Tt is the same type as that used so .successfully on the* Queenstown-Fairlic motor mail SrtTvico —the longest motor mail route in the world. It is finished in grey, and complete with hood, »cre«n, five lamps, clock, and speedometer. It is a good, big, powerful car, and wotiid do g-od service for a coach proprietor, as well as for mails. Now the ear would cost £400. Our price to-day is £250. An especially advantageous offer is made in respect to a 10-2S-h v>. Talbot car. -with two interchangeable bodies. One body, which -will bo finished and lettered to fiiiit purchaser, is adapted for use either for Goods delivery or as a ten-passenger brake. The five-seater standard t-tiring lio'lv, fir> ; «hed neatly in grey is also available. The car is a - i ideal one for mail, passenger, or goods service, and can also bo ii'od by the owner as a pleasure car. Talbot quality is so well known thai wp no<vl not labour tho «tren»nh and reliability of this car. Nrw it cost £700. To-day the price, with two bodies, is .£3.TO. Phntogranhs on application. Better .still, call and see +he ears in our gar.-ige. Aflams. Ltd.. Ttiam strop*. Cbristchurch, near High street establishment. 6

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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14829, 21 November 1913, Page 9

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SPECIAL TO MAIL CONTRACTORS Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14829, 21 November 1913, Page 9

SPECIAL TO MAIL CONTRACTORS Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14829, 21 November 1913, Page 9

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