THE GOLDEN ARROW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20480, 4 February 1930, Page 15

THE GOLDEN ARROW.

SEGRAVE'S RACING CAR.

BOUGHT FOR THE NATION

[from our own correspondent.!

LONDON, Dec. 23,

Sir Charles Wakefield has bought the " Golden Arrow" for tho nation. This wonder-car was driven by Sir Henry Segrave when he regained the world's fastest mile land speed record for Britain from the United States. Tlio Golden Arrow cam© on the market following the announcement that Mr. Horne, to whom the car belonged, had filed his petition in bankruptcy. / A number of famous racing drivers were in the market for the car with a view to entering it once more for the world's speed record. Sir Charles is fulfilling the desire of its original owner by buying it and presenting it to the nation, and it "will now rest in a museum as a lasting monument to a wonderful feat of British imotor engineering. . There has never been a motor-car like tho .Golden Arrow, for it was practically hand-made throughout, while even the .fmallest nut was cut out of solid metal, and for every different nut and bolt a separate drawing was made by Captain Irving, the designer, who altogether made more than 5000 drawings. He realised that the slightest fault might prove fatal to the driver, and insisted that the safety ifactor should be studied in the minutest •detail; hence the enormous cost of the inotor-car, £20,000.

Sir Charles Wakefield is one of the eilent figures behind most of the British attempts on world's records on land and iwater. During tho past few years he has Cupplied over £50,000 for such ventures.