WATER SPEED RECORD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 11

WATER SPEED RECORD

SIR HENRY SEGRAVE’S. ATTEMPT. NEW BOAT BEING BUILT. (United Press Association.) {By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright.) LONDON, May 5. Lifebelts reinforced with steel strips will be worn by Sir Henry Segrave and his mechanics during the attempt at the water speed record on Lake Windermere in Lord Wakefield’s 4000 horse-power motor boat Alias England the Second, which will be launched on June 1. If they are thrown out when travelling at 100 miles an hour the water will be as hard as a rock. The steel coats, therefore, will act as springs and take the first shock, whereas with cork belts the men would probably break every bone in their bodies. The propeller is only 15 inches in diameter, so the engineer has only a vague knowledge of what will happen when 4000 hofse-power is released. The designer allows for 12,500 revolutions per minute, compared with GBOO revolutions of Miss England the First. The new boat weighs four and a-half tons, and is built of wood, steel, and aluminium. .After tests at Windermere she will be taken to the United States in the hope of wresting Gar Wood’s record from America.