AMAZING CAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19734, 31 December 1926, Page 7

AMAZING CAR

UNLIKE ANY OTHER TWO HUGE ENGINES TO ATTAIN TERRIFIC SPEED. ATTEMPT ON WORLD RECORD. TO BE MADE ON FLORIDA BEACH* By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright. Received December 30, 8.15 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 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 Air Segrave, the wellknown automobilist, for whom it has been constructed. It is unlike any other ear in the world. It is capable of a speed of 200 miles an hour. It lias two separate engines of 500 horse power each, on.e just aft of the front axle and the other vertically over the rear axle. The power of both engines is transmitted to a common. three-spee<| gearbox in the centre of the chass’is. The forward engine is started, by compressed air, and when it is running the driver starts the other from it through a slipping- clutch. When the revolutions synchronise the engines ■ are coupled as one unit and set the ! car in motion in the ordinary way through another clutch and gearbox. [There arc three cooling radiators. An exhaustive test resulted in many .alterations. One of the most tremendous problems is directional stability. If the car swerves in 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 round and round on its own axis. Owing to there being no place in England where such terrific speed is attainable the car will be shipped to America to attempt a world record breaking performance on Daytona Beach, Florida, in February.