A WONDERFUL ENGINE
TO TRY FOR SPEED-BOAT RECORD \ Rugby, February 21. It is stated that the remarkable Napier engine used in Flight-Lieutenant Webster’s seaplane which won the Schneider trophy air race in September, and which in Captain Campbell’s car has just raised at Daytona the vvorld s speed record on land, is to be given a third task of gaining tlie world’s speed record on water. The engine will be adapted to a motor-boat, which will be driven bv an Englishwoman, Miss Carstairs. The present motor-boat record is 50.56 miles per hour. The Napier engine has twelve cylinders arranged in three rows in the form of a broad arrow, and although it onlyweights 8501 b. it gives 875 horse-power. Its compression ratio is almost ten to one, and it is regarded as the most highly developed engine in existence.— British Official Wireless.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 11
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142A WONDERFUL ENGINE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 11
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