LAND AND SEA RECORDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 7

LAND AND SEA RECORDS

BRITISH ENTERPRISES NEW MACHINES DESIGNED A 4000 H.P. SPEEDBOAT ' % v (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 2. A motor boat designed to have a speed of 120 miles an hour is under construction at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and will be used in the British attempt on the water speed record, and in the international motor boat trophy on the Detroit River, America, next year. Permission has been obtained from the Air Ministry to use two Rolls-Royce engines similar to those used in the seaplane which won the Schneider Trophy for Britain this year, and which are still on the secret list.

The craft- will be called Miss England 11. She is, being built on behalf, of Sir Charles Wakefield, and is. being designed by Mr. Fred Cooper, in collaboration with Sir Henry Segrave, who will be the pilot. The boat will be 38ft. long, with a. 9ft. beam. Her engines will develop 4000 horse power. Motor racing experts are to make a careful inspection of l’andine Sands, Carmarthenshire, to consider the possibility of adapting them to motor record breaking conditions. Although the sands extend for seven miles, and are, in certain conditions of wind and tides, suitable for high-speed car attempts, there is a. stream at one end of the, run which is considered a dangerous obstacle. The problem is whether this obstruction can be overcome to give a long enough course. The inspection is being undertaken mainly at the instance of the Sunbeam Motor Co., which has constructed the 4000 horse power Silver Bullet car,, in which Kay Don hopes to improve on the world record of 231 miles ah hour established by Sir Henry Segrave on his 1000 horse power Irving-Napier Golden Arrow car at Daytona, America. Captain Malcolm Campbell also has ambitions to establish a fresh record with a 1300 horse power BJue Bird designed by himself, and wifi use Pendina Sands if thev can be made suitable.