THE RECORD ON WATER
SEGRAVE TO TRY AGAIN
ENGINES OF 4000 HORSE POWER
llritisli Official Wireless.
KtFGJBY, 2nd December. A motor-boat, designed to have a speed of 120 miles an hour, is under construction at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and will be used in a British attempt on the water speed record and the International Motor-boat Trophy on. the Detroit River, America, next year. Permission has been obtained from the Air Ministry to use two Bolls-Koyce engines, similar to those used in the seaplane which won the Schneider Trophy for Britain this year, and which are still oil the secret list. The craft will be called Miss England the Second. She is being built on behalf of Sir Charles Wakelield, and is being designed by Mr. Fred Cooper in collaboration with Sir Henry Segrave, who will be pilot. The boat will be 3Sft long with a 9ft beam. Her engines will develop 4000 h.p.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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154THE RECORD ON WATER Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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