MOTOR RACING

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 25 June 1928, Page 7

MOTOR RACING

CASUALTIES IN ENGLAND. (Per Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 23. Hundreds were horror-stricken whoa Miss May Cunliffe, the famous racing motorist, whose betrothal was recently announced, on the track took a hairpin bend too finely while lighting for first place, alter covering sixty miles in the 100-mile race at Southport Sauds iu a Sunbeam car, which overturned and three times somersaulted. Miss May and her father, who was a passenger, were extricated from—beneath, the father being killed with a severed throat artery, and Miss May having a broken arni and cut face. She is progressing in a nursing home. Another car overturned earlier and was wrecked, the occupants being slightly injured. Captain Malcolm Campbell was also a competitor, but retired through axle trouble. DRIVERLESS ROCKET CAR. BERLIN, June 23. Thousands watched the driverless Rocket car, of a new type, fitted with wheels for rails, smashed to fragments iu the second attempt to make a world’s record over a five kilometer streteh of railway between Durgwedel and Gelle, in Hanover.

The only injured thing was a cat, placed in the car to ascertain the effect of speed pressure on a living

Ihe first attempt was most successful, the speed attained being 159 miles per hour. Automatic brakes, in the form of rockets shot from the front of the car. checked progress, and brought the car to a standstill after two kilometres had been traversed. More powerful rockets, vertically fired, impelled the car in the second attempt With a terrific roar, amidst sheets of flame and clouds of smoke, it jumped the rail almost immediately, and crashed into an embankment and was demolished.