100 MILES AN HOUR.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 15

100 MILES AN HOUR.

Sfr • JpLD'S FASTEST MOTOR-CAR. ttCULS—FRKSB ASSOCIATION COPIRICHT.) /tt~a*uur jutd ».i. cable association.) ||K«ived December 30th, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 29. Barly in January an amazing motoric already christened "Mystery S" •ffibe conveyed from locked and guardfjgwrkihops at Wolverhampton for test V jfegravc, the well-known racing drivSjjf for whom it was constructed. It » unlikely that anv other tar in the <WM will be capable of quailing its *J*j*d of 200 miles an hour. lit has two separate engines of 500 PWajtower each, one jiist aft of the Wirt axle, and the other vertically over *»»-ttar axle. The power of both en(h» ia transmitted to a common threejWmtrbox in the centre of thechas- *•*■ fhe forward engine is started by ♦jMjpreaaed air, and when it is running **» drirer starts the other from it 'tewjh a slipping clutch. When the re**Wcm synchronise the engines are *WpW up as one unit and set the car w motion in the ordinary way through *Mtter dutch and gearbox. There are ftflW tooling radiators. An exhaustive tMtreittlted in many alterations. One *?* tie most tremendous problems is *• »e«nring of directional stability. If J*« <ar iwerves the slightest degree *»»» the straight when travelling at the W| ot 200 miles an hour, the imme- *«• tendency is for tho whole car to lonnd and round on its own axis. jWng to there being no place in Eng- ■•£ where such a terrific speed can be *tt»»ed, the car will bo shipped to <*"Wriea to attempt to break ivorld *Was on Dayton Beach, Florida, in wruary.