“MYSTERY'S” TO BE GIVEN SPEED TEST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18043, 31 December 1926, Page 12

“MYSTERY'S” TO BE GIVEN SPEED TEST.

IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER MOTOR-CAR IN WORLD. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. anti N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. December 29. Early in January an amazing motorcar, already christened “Mystery S,” will be conveyed from locked and guarded workshops at Wolverhampton for a test by Major 11. O. D. Seagrave, for whom it has been constructed. It is unlike any other car in the world. It is capable of a speed of 200 miles an hour. It has two separate engines of 500 horsepower each. One is just aft of the front axle and the other vertically ever the rear axle. The power of both engines is transmitted to a common three-speed gear-box in the centre of the chassis. The forward engine is started by compressed air and when running the driver starts the other from it through a slipping clutch.. When the revolutions synchronise the engines are coupled up as one unit and set the car in motion in the ordinary way through another clutch and gear-box There are three cooling radiators. An exhaustive test resulted in many alterations. One of the most tremendous problems is directional stability. If the car swerves the slightest degree from the straight when travelling at the rate of 200 miles an hour the immediate tendency is for the whole car to spin found and round on its own Owing to there being no place in England where terrific speed is attainable, the car will be shipped to America to attempt a world recordbreaking performance on Dayton Beach, Florida, in February.