READY FOR SHIPMENT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 9

READY FOR SHIPMENT

Campbell’s New Blue Bird (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 21. Sir Malcolm Campbell’s 2350 horsepower car Blue Bird, in which he hopes next month to break his own land speed record of 272 miles an hour at Daytona Beach, Florida, was removed in a giant packing ease to Southampton during the week-end, and will be shipped to the United States on Wednesday aboard the liner Aquitania. MONTE CARLO RALLY Difficult Test Started (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 21. There were 55 British entrants, representing one-third of the total, for the Monte Carlo rally, which is generally recognised as the most severe of winter motor-car tests. The entrants started their journey from various points on Saturday, there being six Continental routes from Norway. Sweden, Estonia, Rumania, Greece, and Sicily, and one across Britain, starting from John o’ Groats. Of the 23 cars following the lastnamed route, all except one, which retired owing to the illness of a passenger, arrived at Folkestone this morning for the Channel crossing. The cars and their drivers have to reach Monte Carlo early on Wednesday, averaging 20 miles an hour from the start to the finish, with the exception that speed has to be. increased to 30 miles per hour for the last 600 miles.