SEGRAVE’S NEW CAR
MILLIONAIRE’S GIFT
£15,000 FOR HOUR’S USE
(United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Recd. January 12, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 11. The “Daily Mail” publishes further details of Major Segrave’s new car named the “Golden Arrow.” It says: — Eighteen months ago, a millionaire visited Segrave and said: “I hear you want to get back the record. Go ahead and get a car built. Tell the designer to spend what he likes, and to spare no money, making the car as safe as humanly possible.” Segrave commissioned a motor engineer, Captain Irving, aged 42, a North countryman. Irving carried out the commission, and the car cost £15,000. I* may be estimated that the car win cover 150 miles during the trial and the racing, including run ups and slow downs, equivalent to one hour’s work. It will probably not be wanted after that. The cost works out at £250 a minute.
Practically every component part is of best English steel. Even the small nuts were specially turned and designed. The maximum speed is 280, but the fixed gear ratios limit it to 240 miles per hour. Tho cockpit is armour plated. Segrave is strapped in it. Even if the car overturns, which is considered unlikely, owing to the low centre of gravity, the plating will take the shock.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 January 1929, Page 7
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