NEW MOTOR CAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 28, 31 December 1926, Page 9

NEW MOTOR CAR.

CHRISTENED “MYSTERY S.”

» ■ /•; CAPABLE OF AMAZING SPEED.

UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN WORLD.

LONDON, Dec. 29.

Early in January an amazing motor car, already christened “Mystery S,” will be conveyed from locked' and guarded workshop at Wolverhampton for a test by Major H. O. D. Segrave'; for whom it was constructed.

The car is unlike any other car in the world, and is capable of a speed of 200 miles an hour. It has two separate engines of 500 horse-power , each, one just aft of the front axle and the other vertically over the rear axle.

The power of both engines is transmitted to a common three-speed gearbox in the centre of the chassis. The forward engine is started by compressed air, and when running the driver starts the other from it through a slipping clutch. When the revolutions the engines are coupled up as one unit, and set the car in motion in the ordinary way through, another clutch and gear-box* There are three cooling radiators. An exhaustive test resulted/in many alterations. One of the most tremendous problems is directional stability. If the car swerves the slightest degree from the straight when travelling at a rate of 200 miles an hour, the immediate tendency is for the whole car to spin round and round on its own axis. Owing to there being no place in England where the terrific speed is attainable, the car will be shipped to America to attempt a world recordbreaking performance on Daytona Beach, Florida, in February.—A. and N.Z. cable.