SUPER MOTOR BOAT.
BUILT LIKE A SUBMARINE. GREAT SPEED POSSIBLE. ' PARIS, June 15. Ettoiro Bugatti, the racing motor designer, is constructing a super-motor-boat, with which ho will attempt to make a voyage from Brest to New York in 48 hours. ■ The boat is shaped like a submarine, fitted with eight petrol engines of a new type, totalling 240 horse-power. It will be 120 feet long and seven feet wide. Its maximum speed will bo 87 miles an hour if the sea is calm. It will be navigated from the bridge, but otherwise it will be sealed up like a submarine, and will be steered by means of a periscope. The crew will number eight.—Sydney Sun cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 169, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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