The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18
CEYL0N ASA MARKET
FOR OUR LIGHT CARS
Promising Place for Low Priced
American Made Auto
mobiles.
COLORS MIST BE BRIGHT
And the Paint Good Too
Chauffcurs Know
Little There.
COL0RS MUST BE BRIGHT


CtEi"n rs an l"eaI pace Tor the
expansion of tn" American automobile
industry would not appeal Mt once to
the average man as n possibility but
II is an Of That 10 JUDGE from n report
made not long ouo by Charles X. Nloser
Consul at Colombo The low priced
American ear is making headyay in tn,
market. the demand for high priced
luxurious Eurunean cars having about
reached lis limit. lac snvs. There arc
about 1000. GOO ronrlc on tho island Of
whom about e.Too Gao are Slnghalese
many of them with money enough TO run
and keep up small cars.
"Whilr uerhaus a comparatively small
proportion of the total reputation is able
to buy motor cars yet in ali these races
there are families of much pnmp and cir
cums,ance Sho arc rppidly becoming
accustomed 10 Tin, use of the motor car
In place II the paEoantIike black and
gold English victoria. vita its rich har-
nessings and IT, funtmen i'm elaborate
uniforms" SAYS IN, American Consul
"ramiis, Siugh.'e., and Moors are
especiaIlv fond Of motor cars and hay,
N kear anprnrintioo 90 H., added d,vnit,
which tbr ppss,.slon ~ one Gives +, their
Son,l,ss ~, ,be ovos ~ a.. ,es, -, tho
cn,n,nuri,v rven o,ro,c tbosc vbo are
cordiry En- ,,,a,jcor e,,udords could mo,
,no,d &, tho nossassio, of =, meter cav
has corra ., No - chorisbaa aro,,, "a
as eo.,' W w - Nv n,,',A, ON, aI,u
s,,..a,,,,a,,, ,,a, 81 49,, ,,,,,,i, ,,.,I,S
49,. a.. ~ .,'.,s,.' -,
necessltlvs IN "t"'r ~ puF "u'; is
new sur ~ '"F w. '''' ''''r W "uE
- ni"'oi ."I '"nonN ',.S s'VulS''iNe popu-
'a'oIl Win us C"''"u9'E uci"otrauS haoi'S
oi nNlns'
WIN the exception OF 'nr'e Ola A'her'-
can steam GAYS ail IN" pleasure cars III
use purh petrol or EaSol'te' Tor ruel
mere are u" ele''lc ruh'o'"ts Tue
rohoWins cars III 'he "'nef named are
most ponular IN 'eNi"n IN their grade ::
Cars from $3.50 upward. Wolsciov-
Siddeley, sunbeam Austin Nauier, Ber-
let. Benz. orcl Loucia and Fiat cars
from slS5' to S275o. Adler vulcan
ArgNll Nrfol-Jo'lnSton ard swift; ca.s
from $1,000 TO 1850. Ford. overland.
Hupmohile, Maxwell, Studehaker and
Krit
The preferred car in C-Nion is a four
cylinder - horsepower car Or. A. &.
rating). and there are many more be-
low this power than above. Six cylinder
cars are too heavy and too long for use
In this district and there il no necessity
for either great sn.cd or large horse
power. The ratio OF gears preferred can
not he given exactly. hut may be stated
approximately as follows for cars of four
speeds: 49, 10 /. Sc 10 !, 80 to | and
to 1.
"There H. no market for cars of over
20 HORSEPOWER H. n e. rating Motor
car agents generally agree that the speci-
fcations most desired are - horse-powe
four cylinders four sracds gate change
instead of s.lectIve type, Bosch magnetic
Zenith carhuretor ,made in Relgium)
1--WE detachable wheel rims low lying
style but with clearance OF over eight
INCHES and streamline torucdo body As
Ceylon Is extremely mountainous and all
the resorts are located IN high attitudes
that can he reached ONLY over roads hay-
ing steep gradients and hairpin curves
cars should be godred 10 take high hills
easily. There is preference for gray
ity feed over pressure feed among the
planters In the hill districts. Great speed
IS not demanded in a car. as the narrow