MAJOR SEAGRAVE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 April 1927, Page 5

MAJOR SEAGRAVE

MAY ACHIEVE 220 MILES PER HOUR. HY CABLE —PHESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIG ill LONDON, March 30. Major Seagrave has cabled to rim Sunbeam factory as follows: “Engines and tyres perfect. I think I can achieve 220, but it is necessary to le-design small items beforehand.” Mrs. Seagrave has been inundated with congratulations, but she declared she did not care whether he nroke a record or not -as long as he returned safe.

SEAGRAVE’S TEST. ITS TECHNICAL VALUE. OF NO LITTLE MOMENT. (British Official Wireless.J RUGBY, March 30 The breaking of records was not the sole purpose of Major Seagrave’s test a 1 Dayton sands. It is hoped that data affecting every branch of the motor industry will be obtained, while aeronautical research will benefit from more exact knowledge of the behaviour of fast moving bodies on land. Many different alloy -steels Lave -been prepared, and are used in this ear’s construction, and knowledge of their performances under great strains will all be of practical value to metallurgy. Months of research, too, have been spent on the tyre® alone, and their behaviour under -strain will be closely studied.

Preparatory to the building of the car aero statisticians were for many weeks engaged in calculating the wind and ground -reactions against a- machine at a 'sped of 200 miles per hour, and extraordinary methods had to be adopted owing to the purely theoretical nature of the expriemnts. Most of the experiments with the actual car were carried out by Messrs Vickens’ aeronautical laboratory at Weybridge where -several models were made and tested in wind funnels.