'A TOURING CAR DE LUXE AT CHRISTCHURCH. The ideal touring car for tho New Zealand motorist should bo light, yet roomy and powerful, artistic as to body design without being freakish, silent in its running, comfortable in its equipment, and lacking none of tho little details which add to tho happiness and convonienco of tho driver and passengers. Such a car is rare. Tho latest example of tit© Silent Knight Minerva to arrive in this city, however, fills the bill to the last particular. Its Charles worth body is in pcrfcct stream-lino form, tapering without joint or seam from radiator to extreme rear. Finished in cream with luxuriant upholstering, tho car is handsomo and distinctive in. appearance. Thero is comfortablo seating accommodation for five persons. The 18 hj). Silent Knight engine has cylinders 90 x 130 mm., and developes 40 h.p. at top speed, giving a speed of up to sixty miles per hour when required. The front wind-screon has side flaps and tho rear seat is also protected by a windshield. Tho hood is designed to turn tho car into practically a limousine in cold or inclement weather, and liko a limousine tho interior of the closed car is illuminated by electric light. A "C.A.V." electric lightim; set of tho latest pattern attends to all tho lamps. Tho car is one which will appeal especially to experienced motorists, who will bo able to appreciato >th» practical value of tho hundred little details in which this ear excels others. The English price of tho chassis is Xt'iO, of tho Chavlesworth body and extras .£l3O 135., electric lighting JUi Is. Id. To theso are added merely the cost of importation, an honest method of price assessment which will commend itself to everyone. Motorists are invited io writo for photographs of this magnificent touring car. Adams, Ltd., Agents for Minerva Cars. Garage, Tuam Street, Christchurch, Palmorston North, and Wanganui, and Tourist Motor Co., Hastings.—Advt.
If you RPI: a chill, with sovo throat. and tightness of the cliosl, don't wait until you arelaid up, but taclilo it with "NAZOL," which curcs quicker and more effectively than any other remedy. Sold everywhere, Is. 6<l. bottle of GO "doses.— Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1819, 4 August 1913, Page 4
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