RECORD BREAKING ENGINE
(British Official Nows.) Prete Association —By Wireless —Copyright.
RUGBY, February 21
(Received February 22, at noon.)
It is stated that the remarkable Napier engine used by 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 world’s speed record on land, is to be given the third task of gaining the world’s speed record on water. The engine will be adapted to a motor boat, which will be driven by an Englishwoman, Miss Carstairs. The present motor boat record is 80.56 miles an hour.
Tli© Napier engine has twelve cylinders arranged in three rows in the form of a broad arrow, and although it only weighs 8501 b it gives 876 horse-power. Its compression ratio is almost 10 to 1, and it is regarded as the most highly developed engine in existence.
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Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 7
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149RECORD BREAKING ENGINE Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 7
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