LATEST BRITISH "EIGHT"

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 21

LATEST BRITISH "EIGHT"

HiUman Go^ Is Out For Business In New Zealand THE news that the Hmman Motor Company, of England, intends 1 almost immediately to introduce a straight "8" "20-horse-j power model for the Dominion market, is one of the best pieces of ' news that admirers of 1&e British car have heard for years.

THE Hillman - Company' is T one' of ■ -those solid: concerns which believe m doing a job thoroughly when setting, about it. ■:■-,. ' -. ■ Their present car is a 14 Ji.p. four-, cylinder machine, which is deservedly popular with those people who like classy . performance with .dignity. It has bee.n, announced that the ; price of the car, will. be. such that it will enter- ; into, serious competition with foreign cars, -f . This statement seems to have a big basis of" fact, as , the present 14 h.p. car Is to be ho longer produced. ; : instead, the' company will concentrate^ its whole resources m the manufacture of the new.;'B." •' .- '

Cables state that the trials have been carried out secretly, and it was only during the week that a surprise announcement was made to Dominion newspapermen who were visiting the Coventry factory. The company is not going to allow the moss to grow on its good resolutions, and the cars will be available for export early m the new year. If a first-class English eightcylinder job can' be sold here at anything around £475 Jt will have a very big market. If the price is going to, be £600 or more the demand will be very restricted indeed.