SPEED CRAZE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 9

SPEED CRAZE.

WHERE WILL IT END? Looking ;it L. G. Horrrsted's recentmotor record of 2S 09 I'or a mile, at the Brooklands track, Ergland, one is constrained to wonder when tho ex. tremn Itm t of [>aro will bo reached. Out- hundred and twenty-oight wles ait hour, which was the speed llorosted averaged on his five-year-old Bkj. was *'• l«*w> of more than e:«£»t nt'lcs faster than prtirioiis'.y accouipA-shed. Moreover. ;t is stater! that this, speed rethe h ghost rati- of travelting yet atta'urd under observation. Thtre uas a time wht n 100 miles per w.-tir was regarded as unattainable, and that was nil.; long ago. Ik the limit of sj>eed still raised as regularly. arid in as short a space of time, w'.tero «til another twentv vears set. nsl* As a mvt rof fact. th«< extreme i-nttt mt:-t b < determined. not so much by th«» pw»-r ava'lab't'— tor that is aJiHfnit unlimited within reason—but by tho \*>mt «:? cunt act-. In other words, the track surface and tho tyro are the !iu ; :n-_; t;:i tors. Some kittli> time i ;i we'l-know>i racing motorist predict d that, before Jong, motor cars ivotdd U> evoked «-apr.We- of as I) ;i ,-oeed ;ls man wi.u'd be capable '■[" d"ni-tir*g. but tit.- ■•(l v in fc'i.f ointment" lie declared, would be the tyre. A pneumatic tyro, allvit hu>a of the very (v-t materia!. nnd w'th the most scientific knowledge available, ni'.ist. i t necessity. pr>-se->« l-'mitafoiis. It a car five years >-M i>; caoable of the Hurustcd attained. it is reasonable t>-» sur;po-e- »>>ac t<»d»\- a car tutiM t» •• bu'it capable of ctrnsderably [:;[<■<•. Hut wjs-ther tho tyres »,r druer v.otdd stand the strain is" atiother matter.