A WONDERFUL CAR AND A WONDERFUL TRIP.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10487, 25 November 1911, Page 5

A WONDERFUL CAR AND A WONDERFUL TRIP.

"Six months ago three men in a Hupmobile left Detroit for a two years' tousr of the world'. Not merely as a publicity adventure, was this arduous trip planned. Behind the undertaking lay a serious sales mission—a world demonstration ■of the Hupmobile. Before the end of its second season tihe widespread success of the Hup-, mobile had been noised abroad. Experts !had come form afar to examine her wonderful little engine; distributing agencies have been established in South America, London, in Squth Africa, Australia,, Manila, and Japan; our export manager, C. H. Dunlap, had toured abroad with the result that many of the cities in continental Europe now have Hupmobile representatives. Already the Hupmobile and its sturdy. crew hare crossed the Americian continent. They have vissfc. Ed Australia and have been welcomed in Unele Sam's two oolonies across the Pacific. Before "they return to American shores citizens in -nearly every im- . port ant city' on the globe will have had an opportunity of judging the Hupmobile at close range. The itinerary will cover approximately a distance of 40,000 miles. To head this expedition Joseph R. Drake, the treasurer and one of the founders of tiho *

Hupp Motor Car Company, was chosen. As travelling companion he took Thomas M. Hamlon and Tom Jones, a Detroit newspaper man. Not since the start of the Glidden Tour two searsons before had Detroit seen such an enthusiastic send-off as when Mayor Breitmeyer fastened an American flag to the radiator of the world-touring Hupmobile and bade the adventurers Godspeed." Such is the commencement of the story of this wonderful little "Hupp". A book containing the full story may be obtained from Messrs A. Hatrick, Wanganui, or Mr H. Leicester, Wakefield Street, opposite Town Hall, Wellington.