SPEED MERCHANT
Segrave's Attempt rTo Beat World's Car Record. USING 1000 H.P. ENGINE. (Australian and N Z. Press Association.! (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, September 30. The "Daily Express" states that „the motor car which Major Segrave is taking to Dayton, California, in January to attempt to beat the world speed record, will be a hybrid and cigar-shaped. It will be 28 feet in length and 24 feet in breadth, fitted with a 1000 horse-power Napier engine. It will be golden coloured and called the Golden Arrow. Major Segrave declares that it will be as safe as the last car, even at 240 miles an hour, which he hopes to attain. He is also building a motor boat speed record engine similar to the Golden Arrow. The boat will have a double bull of mahogany and duralmin with room for a passenger, and he is aiming at a speed of 95 miles an hour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 232, 1 October 1928, Page 10
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153SPEED MERCHANT Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 232, 1 October 1928, Page 10
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