A "ROCKET" CAP.
GERMAN INVENTION 'WILL BREAK AT J- SPEED RECORDS" United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copy right. Australian Press Association.—united Service HEREIN, 13th April. The helief that all sped records arc Deniable by the roelcel car appears in a statement issued by the Opel Motor Company, claiming I hat Max \ a Her, nicknamed the "fantastic cosmos liver owing lo his idea of building a rocket which can he shot into space, has invented a motor car. driven like a rocket, by a combustible powder instead of petM>l, The company says the motor car lias attained a speed of a hundred kilometres an hour within eight seconds of starting, It will shortly make an effort to break Campbell's lerord, which will necessitate the rocket car's. I ravelling on a railw.iv track.
the company 'add-; that this machine is imlv a step" towards a rocket air machine 'which will be able lo reach higher altitudes than have ever been attained. The company is convinced that such .a machine will even ibis year penetrate space.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 7
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172A "ROCKET" CAP. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 7
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