LAND BATTLESHIP
60 M.P.H. IN REVERSE .REMARKABLE VEHICLE LONDON, Nov. I. Many.motor cars will travel at CO miles an hour forward. Now we have a vehicle that will travel a mile a, minute backwards. It. is. an armored car, the invention ol a young man of Hungarian origin, who lias become a naturalised Englishman Nicholas' Straussler. His venture has the support of Briga-dier-General Oitehley, of greyhound racing fame; Air. Tom .Sopwith. airplane designer and amateur yachtsman; and .Major-General S. C. Peck, at one time director of mechanisation at the War I Itfice. A model of this remarkable vehicle is now on the wav from Port Said to Bagdad in charge of Flight-Lieutenant John llarvoy. to be tested under the most gruelling conditions by the Air Ministry. Its drive is through all four wheels. It is steered through all four wheels. Each wheel is independently sprung. ON EVEN KEEL The front axle is articulated, so that one wheel eon be actually raised nit. on a mound without any oilier leaving the ground. If it goes, into a deep shell-hole, all four wheels are capable of helping to pull it out. The body of the car remains on an even keel ‘with its wheels at grotosi|iie angles. It will travel across a ploughed field at 45-miles an hour, and across level countrv at 60 miles an hour.
It can approach an enemy at this speed, lire its. guns (one light and one heavy), and retreat at 60 miles an hour. And it is claimed lo be as silent as a private car. . There are six forward and six reverse speeds. The lowest, gear will enable the car to climb a one-in-two gradient, and a steering wheel is placed alt lor it to be driven backwards. If carries fuel sufficient for 800 miles. The Straussler armored car. as il is named, will not be on view at the Commercial Motor Transport Exhibition, which opens, at Olympia to-morrow, but many of its features are incorporated in the commercial vehicles, built tor special purposes in all parts of the world, that will be on show.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18900, 30 December 1935, Page 13
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