LAND SPEED

Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 January 1932, Page 5

LAND SPEED

" ENTERPRISE’S ” TRIAL

’ V SHtof PLEASED WITH CAR.

NINETY MILE BEACH, Monday. •“I like the car very much indeed; I did 125 miles, an hour on a sniff of the throttle,” said Mr. Norman Smith at the conclusion of his first trial run of the Enterprise this afternoon. The beach was bad yesterday and the party was considering closing down till January 22, but there was a big improve- » ment to-day and Mr. Smith decided to test the car. At about 5 o ’clock it was towed out

of its garage on to the course. After a , start it got properly going and Wjied down the beach, with the exhaust , roaring, but well throttledjdown. As the car was running on road tyres, it only made a run Sjkabout four and a half miles and was?'then towed back to the garage. Mr. Smith later stated that he reached 125 miles an hour and said he w r as very well satisfied with the performance of the car, which was wonderfully cool after the spin. Mr. J. H. Mostvn, Mr. Smith’s manager, was also pleased. “The ten and five-mile records are in our pockets,” he said, “and we ought to have no difficulty with-the “flying mile.” He predicted that Mr. Smith would attain 245 miles an hour in the five-mile dash and 285 miles an hour in the mile. It was stated earlier that Mr. Butcher and the timing officials were going back to Auckland to-morrow unless conditions improved, but Mr. Smith now states that he will make the attempt to-

morrow if the beach and wind are

right. He will try for the ten-mile at Tiic telegraph office at the ~Heaeh is remaining open till Wednesday.— (P.A^ telegraph ofhce to close. WELLINGTON, Monday. The Telegraph Department notifies that the radio telegraph office recently opened at Ninety Mile Beach in connection with the proposed motor speed trial will be closed _from Wednesday evening till January 22. —(P.A.). the new radiator. AUCKLAND, Monday. The radiator placed in Smith’s car by the designer, Don Harkness, has been discarded in favour of one designed by Smith himself, and made in Auckland, with the object of improving the codlihg system, but it has so radically af&red the original streamline design that much concern is being felt for the efficiency of the car. The new radiator itself is also causing anxiety.—(P. A.). \ ( . TEN-MILE RECORD. TO-MORROW MORNING. N.M.8., This Day. Wizard Smith will attempt to break the ten-mile record at low tide about 7 a.m. to-morrow. There was a wonderful improvement in the beach yesterday and it is even better to-day. By to-morrow the beach should be very smooth and everything should favour Wizard Smith breaking the record held by Marchand with a speed of 137.21 -miles an hour. ■Mr Mostyn, Wizard Smith’s manager, is pleasedi with the prospects and is predicting W Wizard Smith will attain 245 miles an hour in the five-mile dash and that he will raise the ‘flying mile record by at least. 40 miles an hour.