PRACTICAL UTILITY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1932, Page 11

PRACTICAL UTILITY

PUKSUIT OF SPEED

.TRIBUTES TO BRITISH GENIUS

(British Official Wireless.) '' RUGBY, 19th July.. Mr, Kayo Don's achievement in recapturing the water speed record for Britain, which now again holds the world records in the air, on tho lfind, and on the water, has revived the discussion as to the practical utility of these high speeds: Tho general impression, judging from tho newspapers, >'is that their technical value is very considerable and that they servo also as a demonstration of (he 'quality of British material and personnel. The "Daily Mail. considers that they can have been attained "only as the outcome of tho " finest engineering science and constructional experience." The "Morning Post" says: "There seems no limit to the ingenuity, perseverance, aad ambition of the blue print men in' Britain's experimental workshops." • '

The ".Manchester Guardian" thinks that "the gain to marine architecture and engineering from these attempts to pack the largest power into the smallest spaco is unquestioned."' ' It is pointed out ■by tho "NewsChronicle" that in 1920 tho record speed for motor-boajts was seventy-one miles nn hour. ]n twelve years it has risen to nearly 120 miles .an hour, and in tho last four years .it has risen by thirty-five miles an hour. The "NewsOhronielo" coricludos: "It should be emphasised that it was 'British engineers who built Miss England 111. and the ongines which have captured so many other world records."