SPECIAL TO MAIL CONTRACTORS
To the mail contractor the modern motor-car offers a of many difficulties and handicaps inherent in the use of horse-drawn vehicles. The motor is immeasurably more ■ speedy, and in these latter days considerably more reliable and economical than the best of horseflesh. With a good modern car like the Studebaker or Talbot motor, delivery of mails means absolute immunity from penalties- We have a 30-h.p. fetudebaker-E.M.F., five-seater touring car for sale'at present. This car has been used as a demonstration car, and is in perfect condition. It is the same type as that used so_ success-, fully on the Queenstown-Fairlio motor mail service —the longest motor mail route in the world. It is finished in grey, and complete with hood., screen, jive lamps, clock, and speedometer. It is a good, big, powerfulcar, and would do gaod service for a coach proprietor, as "well as for mails. Xow the car wouitf cost £400. Our. price to-dfly is £250. An especially advantageous offer is made in respect to a 15-28-h.p. Talbot car, with two interchangeable bodies. One body, which will be finished and lettered to auit purchaser, is adapted for use either for goods delivery or as V ei i" pa f cn S er brake. The five-seater standard tearing body, finished neatly in grey is also available. The car is an ideal one for mi \ passengeri or goo ds service, and can a &, bo W by the i iZ f l £ Lfr 111 "* 5 ear - Talbot qual- ! \ll ? i knoxr * that we need not establishment. near H, Sa .street
Rink Taxis, Ltd. (Hayward and Smith amalgamated). Taxis and touring cars always ready. Address. \ ictoria Chambers, 104 Armagh street. Telephones 87S, 1838, 1337. tt. Haywardy manager. *
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 11
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