SEGRAVE'S RETURN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 90, 16 April 1929, Page 7

SEGRAVE'S RETURN

BRITAIN’S SUPREMACY SEA, LAND AND AIR (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 14. The announcement that- the King hns approved a knighthood for Major Henry Segrav e has given great satis--1 faction. Major Segrave s mother was >ne of the first to greet him and his K »vife. On going ashore Major Segrave E broadcast a short wireless message » which was relayed from his hotel. k H t . mentioned that his car was in as R good condition after its reeord-break-ing feat as it was before, and paid a wa:m tribute to its designer, Captain Irving, and the wonderful team of Bri-1 tish mechanics who accompanied him to America. Major Segrave said that he had no personal interest in which particular British motorist held the world’s record, whether it was Captain Campbell or himself or somebody else. |iis sole desire was to see it held by oreat Britain. His ambition that Bn-' tain should secure the dying motor-1 boat and motor-car speed records had: now been achieved. He believed that : his land speed record would stand for some time. Regarding the motor-boat race, he mentioned that the maximum speed attained by his boat was 88 m.p.h., which was very fast on the water, and all the more creditable to the designer when it was considered that the engine was of 900 horse-power against the American boat’s twin engines of 2300 horse-power. Captain Douglas Hacking (Minister for Overseas Trade), in a speech of welcome to Major Segrave, mentioned that in the British pavilion of the Milan Exhibition the model lent by Major Segrave of the Golden Arrow would be alongside the mode] of the Mauretania which holds the speed record for liners, ami the seaplane which won the Schneider Cup, indications of British prowess on sea, land, and in th e air. Major Segrave, replying, warmly praised the uesigner ami engineers responsible for his car and boat, who. ho said, alone made his success possible.