VAUXHALLS LOSE NO MARKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 6

VAUXHALLS LOSE NO MARKS

VICTORIAN 24-HOUR TRIAL The adaptability of a high-class British motor-car to colonial conditions has recently been demonstrated in Australia on the occasion of a team of three Vauxhall cars completing, without loss of points, a rigorous 24 hours’ 500-mile Victorian Automobile Club trial, heavy rain falling throughout the route. The road traversed ran through central, southern, and coastal towns of Victoria, leading over many hills, and skirting cliffs where the ability of the drivers to handle their machines was put to the test. In this connection, it is interesting to note that the respective drivers had not before taken part in a trial run in Australia. Conditions were foreign to them. One had arrived from England four days previous to the undertaking, whilst the other two were resident in Victoria only a few months.

The fact of three cars—two 20-60-li.p. models, and one 14-40-h.p. model —making the run without losing a single point proves without a doubt the unquestionable suitability of the Vauxhall to colonial conditions, its ease of control, and fidelity of performance.