HIGH SPEED RECORDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1929, Page 11

HIGH SPEED RECORDS

BRITISH PREPARATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 2. ( A motor-boat designed to have a speed of 120 miles per hour is under construction at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and will be used in the British attempt on the water speed record and the International Motor Board trophy on the Detroit river, America, next year. Permission has been obtained from the Air Ministry to use two RollsRoyce engines similar to those used in the seaplane which won the Schneider Trophy for Britain this year, and which are still on the secret list. The craft will be called Miss England IL She is being build on behalf of Sir Charles Wakefield, and is being designed by Air Fred Cooper in collaboration with Sir Henry Segrave, who. will be the pilot. * The boat .will be 38 feet long, with a nine foot beam. Her engines will develop 4000 horse-power. Motor racing experts are to mal«i a careful inspection of the Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, to consider tlip. --nnssibilitv of adapting them to

motor record breaking conditions. Although the sands extend for tseven miles and are, in certain conditions of v the wind and tide, suitable for high speed car attempts, there is a stream at one-- end of the run which is considered a dangerous obstacle. The problem is whether this obstruction can be overcome so as to give a long enough course. The inspection i* being undertaken mainly at the instance of the Sunbeam Motor y01 !- 1 n pany, which has constructed a 4000 horse-power Silver Bullet car in which Kaye Don hopes to improve on the world record of 231 miles per hour, established by Sir Henry Segrave m his 1000 horse-power Irving-Napier Golden Arrow car at Daytona, rica. Captain Malcolm Campbell also has ' ambitions to establish a fresh record ’ with the 1300 horse-power Blue Bird ' designed by himself, and will use the 5 Pendine Sands if they can be made ! suitable.