NO LIMIT TO SPEED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 29

NO LIMIT TO SPEED

SCHNEIDER CUP LESSON

Captain Malcolm Campbell, tho famous English racing .motorist, who witnessed the recent great air race held at Southsea, on the coast of South England, for the Schneider Trophy, and won «? e o ajLßritain With an average speed • 3.8 63 m.p.h., relates hia impressions of this remarkable event, as follows:—"I was impressed as any thinking person must have been, by the fact that here before my eyes, were men achieving a feat, which but a few years since had been deemed utterly impossible—yet a feat so full of obvious potentialities that the momentousness ot its performance was actually eclipsed by the possibilities which it opened up. That was what impressed me most —the possibilities. There is no limit to man's speed. That is tho first and the greatest lesson which the race for this year's Schneider's Trophy h.as demonstrated. Speeds of nearly five knd a half miles a minute were aehioved, speeds so utterly amazing that when the roar of the oncoming engine smoto on the ear one had to look two miles in advance of the sound to see the; machine that made it! Speeds that upset all the old conservative ideas, speeds that confounded all the postulations and principles of those who in the early days of speeds, prophesied that neither man

nor materials could stand up to a himdred miles an hoUr. A hundred miles an hour—^and probably within two years, we shall see similar pilots, in very similar seaplanes, doing four hundred miles an hour, and after that 500 miles an hour. "Even then man's speed will not stop. We Shall go on discovering" means whereby we can travel faster. Those means will be applicable on land, sea, and in the^air. The three hundred mile an hour car is oh the threshold of the immediate future^ It may come next year. I hope that I may drive it.. The ;150 ih..p.h. speed-boat is close at hand, if not actually with us—and the 500 m.p.h. aeroplane will, I-.daresay, come in my lifetime. This: race for the Schenider Trophy- has demonstrated three things. It has' shown that British manhood, British 'science, and British engineering ckn produce a trinity of pilot, desighy and engine which can beat the world."