ANOTHER RELIABILITY VICTORY

Shannon News, 11 April 1928, Page 4

ANOTHER RELIABILITY VICTORY

ERSKINE SCORES IN BIG ENGLISH EVENT.

An Erskine Six Sedan, entered- in tour, finished the test wijh a perfect score and is now eligible for the gold medal, highest award for reliable perthe London-Exeter-London reliability formance, according to cabled advice received here from L. J. Ollier, Managing Director of Studebaker (England) Ltd. The reliability tour which was purposely routed over some of the poorest stretches of road, and steepest hills in England, was regarded by the British motoring authorities as one of the most stringent: tests ever devised for the all round performance qf motor cars. The Erskine Six, however, easily negotiated, every hill and checked in at every control point, well within the* time, limit laid down by governing officials of the run. The London-Exeter-London, run is the third reliability test in, England to be won, by the Erskine Six in open competition. Gold trophies emblematic of victories in the London Edinburgh and London-Lands End, classics are already held by the Erskine Six. In addition, Studebakers-new: . Erskine Six recently- set a new. 241 hour endurance and speed record for cars in its price class by travelling better than 54 mites per hour for 24 consecutive hours. Tliis recor&<was niade- at the Atlantic City Speedway under American Automobile Association supervision.