AT HIGH SPEED

Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 9

AT HIGH SPEED

. MAJOR SEGRAVE’S RECORDS VALUABLE DATA EXPECTED. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless —Copyright. RUGBY, March 30. (Received March 31, at 11 a.ra.) The breaking of records was not the sole purpose of Major Segrave’s test at Dayton Sands. It is hoped that data affecting every branch of the motor industry will be obtained, while aeronautical research will benefit from the more exact knowledge of the behaviour of fast-moving bodies on land. Many different alloy steels have been prepared and are used in this car’s construction, and the knowledge of their performances under great strains will be of practical value to metallurgy. Months of research have been spent on the tyres alone, and their behaviour under strain will be closely studied. Preparatory to building the car aero-statisticians were for many weeks engaged in calculating wind and ground reactions against a machine at a speed of 200 miles per hour, and extraordinary methods had to be adopted owing to the purely theoretical nature of the experiments. Most of the experiments with the actual car were carried out by Messrs Vickers's aeronautical laboratory at Weybridge, where several models were made and tested in wind funnels. ENGINE AND TYRES PERFECT. LONDON, March 30. (Received March 31, at 12.30 p.m.) Major Segrave has cabled the Sunbeam factory: “Engines and tyres perfect. Think I can achieve 220, but necessary to redesign small items beforehand.” Mrs Segrave has been inundated with congratulations, hut she declared that she did not care whether he broke the record or not, so long as he returned safe.