06-10-2018, 06:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-10-2018, 06:59 AM by Bob Culver.)
Thanks Douglas
The adverts intriguing. Some would attract a law suit today. The 1935 Ruby “An Austin is Safer to Drive” ”the brakes are of the most efficient type”. Road tests struggled to achieve 50%. It is remarkable that so many 1935 cars were sold. A Standard 9 just L135.
The elegant ladies on the grass seem to be particularly enjoying their smoke......
An Austin 16 advertised in a very non PC colour!
American car prices seem both low and high. A 5 seat Model T in 1914 a mere L135. 1918 Durant L195. A 1930 Essex L295, Marmon 8 L395. Yet a 1923 Nash, not in the Cadillac class, L650, high even for a sedan at the time? If it had not been for the high tax on big bore Yanks, would have been little place for the local product. In the late 1920s NZ had about the second highest vehicles per pop. Most of the cars which came here were Yank. A popular measure of a car was its top gear hill climb ability; many of the underpowered UK cars of late 20s, early 30s were regarded with contempt.
The term jitney in the Phillipines was very much associated with the bodies constructed on war surplus jeeps
The adverts intriguing. Some would attract a law suit today. The 1935 Ruby “An Austin is Safer to Drive” ”the brakes are of the most efficient type”. Road tests struggled to achieve 50%. It is remarkable that so many 1935 cars were sold. A Standard 9 just L135.
The elegant ladies on the grass seem to be particularly enjoying their smoke......
An Austin 16 advertised in a very non PC colour!
American car prices seem both low and high. A 5 seat Model T in 1914 a mere L135. 1918 Durant L195. A 1930 Essex L295, Marmon 8 L395. Yet a 1923 Nash, not in the Cadillac class, L650, high even for a sedan at the time? If it had not been for the high tax on big bore Yanks, would have been little place for the local product. In the late 1920s NZ had about the second highest vehicles per pop. Most of the cars which came here were Yank. A popular measure of a car was its top gear hill climb ability; many of the underpowered UK cars of late 20s, early 30s were regarded with contempt.
The term jitney in the Phillipines was very much associated with the bodies constructed on war surplus jeeps