OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1930, Page 3

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

MOTOR-CAR SPEEDING. CONSTRUCTION OF POWERFUL MACHINE. ' (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 10. . The 4000 horse-power Sunbeam motorcar, with which Kaye Don will, at Daytona, Florida, in March, endeavour to lower Sir Henry Seagrave’s land speed record of 231.30 miles an hour, is approaching completion at Wolverhampton. Two immense engines coupled in tandem, are in place in the frame. The machine must he ready for shipment to America by the middle of next month, and the staff at the Wolverhampton works are engaged iu double shifts to complete it. The two engines of tlie car occupy nearly all the space between the front and tlie rear axles, leaving just enough room for the driver’s seat. The car, which weighs 2$ tons, is 25 feet long overall. Many ingenious devices have been introduced to redrea wind resistance, in overcoming, which the designer, Louis Coatslen, estimates that 95 per cent, of the enormous power of tlie car will he absorbed. IMPORTATIONS OF FOOD.

GREAT INCREASE IN EMPIRE SUPPLIES. ■

RUGBY, January 10

Striking facts and figures about Britain’s food sn plies are contained in a Blue Book issued to-day dealing with the change between pre-war and postwar supplies. The Ministry of Agriculture adopts for tlie purpose of comparison tlie years 1905 and 1910, and from 1924 to 1927 respectively, as representing periods for which accurate statistics are most readily available. The most notable fact emerging from the analysis is the extent which Dominion supplies of food have increased. There lias been a substantial increase in the receipts of wheat from ”i- : ri«li countries, and despite the diminution in the contribution from Home-grown wheat, the. proportion of the total supply derived from Empire sources in the post-war period exceeds 00 per cent., as compared with 50 per cent., in tlie pre-war period. Post-war wheat and Hour supplies from Canada are three times the pre-war value. The Empire barley consignment to Britain was multiplied four times. There are heavy decreases in imports from forrign countries hut foreign consignment of meat to Britain have increased.