LIMITS OF MOTOR SPEED.
Rome, April 6.—The Marquis Bourbon del Monte, who met with a motor-car accident at Teiracina similar to that in which Count Zborowski came by his death, has given me an interesting account of the cause and character of the accident. The marquis said that when he and M. Von Viller found it necessary to turn sharply the latter, who was driving, made the necessary movements in the steering apparatus, but the front wheels, which guide the machine, failed to answer, the enormous centrifugal force having raised them off the ground, when, of coarse, they were useless for steering purposes. In consequence the motor-car dashed into the wall at the side of the road, and with a, great leap stood up on its hind wheels and fell on the other side of the wall. The Marquis Bourbon del Monte considers that his accident, though unfortunate, has demonstrated that no matter how cool and skilful the mechanician may be the motorcar as at present constructed is unable to take sharp turns at a speed of 60 miles an hour because of the euornious centrifugal force.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12278, 23 May 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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