SPEED RECORD BROKEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 7

SPEED RECORD BROKEN.

AMERICAN DRIVER'S PEAT

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) NEW YORK, April 23. At Daytona Beach, Florida, Ray Keecli, driving a triplex special 36cylinder car owned by Mr. J. M. White, the Philadelphia motor car manufacturer, established a new speed record with an average of 207.5526 miles an hour. His time for one mile was 17.345 seconds. This breaks Captain Campbell's record made at Daytona in February.

The performance of J. M. White's tliree-engined car just eclipses Captain Malcolm Campbell's flying mile record of 206.96 miles per hour, established on Daytona Beach on February 19. Sir Charles Wakefield's 1000 guinea trophy accordingly goes to America after being held by the British driver for only two months. This trophy carries with it £1000 a year in cash up to the end of 1930. Prior to Captain Campbell's achievement the world's record was held by Major H. O. D. Segrave, whose twin-engined 1000 b.p. Sunbeam attained 203.79 miles per hour at Daytona in March, 1927. The three engines are ordiu-

ary Liberty aero-

plane type, with 12 and an output of 500 horsepower. The car thus had 1500 horsepower available for propulsion. The weight of the car is 80001b. At full speed its petrol consumption would be at the rate of over 100 gallons an hour. Captain Campbell's single-engined car developed 875 horsepower.