MOTOR RECORD ATTEMPT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 12

MOTOR RECORD ATTEMPT.

MR. NORMAN SMITH'S PLANS. REVOLVING SCREEN TESTED. Preliminary tests of the revolving windscreen specially made during the past week for Mr. Norman Smith's racing car were carried out late last evening, the screen proving satisfactory in every way. Mr. Smith and his staff were busy throughout the night, and hoped to have the screen mounted and the drive coupled up by about four o'clock this morning, when it was proposed to conduct further tests. Shortly before midnight, Mr. Smith expressed the opinion that the screen would prove a success, and said m that case the car would be shipped to Awanui North by the auxiliary vessel Motn, which is due to sail at noon to-day. M;. Smith's party, with the exception of Mr. L. Nudl, of Melbourne, who is still in hospital recovering from appendicitis, will jeavo for Awanui bv motor-car this afternoon, arriving late this evening.

In the event of the car being shipped iodav, members of the Auckland Automobile Tracing Club, Limited, and Mr. Kelvin Cuff and his staff of timekeepers and engineers, will leave Auckland this afternoon or early to-morrow morning, arriving at Awanm to-morrow evening at, the latest. Special arrangements have been made by Mr. Smith to have the car unloaded to-morrow, so that it can be returned to the garage at the beach immediately.

Mr. Smith plans to race as soon as possible without waiting for a dry beach, attacking first tlie world's 10-kilometre and five-mile records, and on the following day the world's one-mile land speed record. He is hopeful of making his first run on Monday n| " Tuesday.