Mercedes Adopt Discs

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 9

Mercedes Adopt Discs

Disc brakes are to be used for the first time on Mercedes cars. Britishbuilt four-wheel disc brakes are fitted to the 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300SL sports car and frontwheel discs are fitted to the new 220 SE coupe. The cars were shown for the first time with their new brakes at the recent motor show in Geneva. The Fiat firm has also decided to use British disc brakes on all four wheels of its 1500 cabriolet—a semi-luxury car.

| Christchurch will be | well represented when the I South Island beach race I championship is held at I Nelson on June 3. This I is late in the year for a J race meeting, and will be J the last opportunity for I drivers to compete in a j major event before next ! season.

* * * | When R. S. Rutherford j gained fastest time in I the Canterbury Car Club’s " hill climb at Lyttelton | last Saturday, he cons tinued his outstanding I record of successes this i year. Rutherford’s car is I a home-built special powI ered by a modified Ford | Zephyr engine, and it has I proved consistently fast J and reliable. j # * *

| For once it was not training on the West Coast J when the Westland Motor | Club held its gold star I rally last week-end, and j the route was considerjably easier than it would | have been if the rivers j were swollen and the ! tracks turned into mud. | Nevertheless the route | was an interesting one ? and the club did well j with its limited resources j and manpower available. ’On the debit side, some jof the route instructions | left room for criticism and J a protest (since with- | drawn) was lodged by one ? entrant. Nor did the I sealed time-piece system I work very smoothly.