WATER SPEED RECORD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 68, 7 April 1937, Page 15

WATER SPEED RECORD

-Own Correspondent)

Sir M. Campbell's Aim NEW WORLD FIGURES

(Bv Air Majl-

LONDON, March 16. Sir Malcolm Campbell, whio holds the world' s land-speed record of 304 miles an hour, now hopes to capture for Britain the world' s water-speed record. He hopes to try out a new high-speed boatin June on Loch Loonond. ; ifI made a definite promise to my family that if I reached 300 miles an hour I would not make any further attempts on the motor car speed record,'' Bir Malcolm said yesterday. "Having reached 300 miles an hour, I am to adhere to that promise — much to my regret. I have also given up racing at Brooklands." Sir Malcolm revealed that for the past 18 months he has been engaged in the construction of a new type of one-man, high-speed boat. "Every nut and bolt and eveiything in the boat is British," he said. "It will be powered by one engine of 2000 h.p. Th© record is held by the American ace, Mr Gar Wood, with a speed of 124,8 miles an hour. That speed was achieved in a boat powered with four American engjnes with a total horsepower of 7,400." Sir Malcolm said he did not know Whether his new boat's speed would be fast enough to break the record, but he added, "It will be a very fast boat." "It has been built,' 'he said, "with the objeet of learning lessons Trith the idea of building some thing else at a later stage which would be capable of beating the record." If the experiments were successful, he might consider building a boat to compete for the British International Trophy, now held by the United States