TRADITIONS OF ROAD SERVICE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 25 (Supplement)

TRADITIONS OF ROAD SERVICE

H.B. Motor Co. on Taupo Road Offspring of the company that etarted the first Royal Mail service over the Taupo road. in the days of coaches and pack horses, the Hawke 's Bay Motor Company still carries on the ideals of service and the traditio-is built by the "old-timers" who pioneered the route. Travelling to Taupo is no hazardous undertaking these days. In four and a-half hours of enjoyment unmarred by any shadow of discornfort one can now cover the journey in the most up-to-the-minute service cara in the country with the safest drivers on the road. To the motorist who is perhaps a little nervous about taking his own car over the hill Toad, one can say h'e need not be disappointed. The service will take him to Taupo, or Wairakei, oi whither he wills, without worry, In perfect condition, and quite probably at .less cost than if he drove himself. Improvements are now taking place all the time on the motor road but 'twas not ever thus. In the early dayc of motoring, there were often difficulties to overcome, but the service car, like the mail eoach before it, always went through. And that is the tradition of which the Hawke's Bay Motor Co. is justly proud to-day — Let it raia. snow, flood (altliough it doesn't verv often now) and the service car still . goes through, safely, surely, on schedule.