MOTOR SPEED RECORD
MISS ENGLAND II
United Dress Association.—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyrigk J. 1
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 5
Lifebelts reinforced with steel strips, will be worn by Segrave and his mechanics during an attempt at a water speed record on Windermere in Lord Wakefield’s .four thousand horse-power motor boat, Miss England II which will be launched on .Tune Ist. If they are thrown out when travelling at 100 miles an hour, the water will be as hard as a rock. The steel coats therefore will act as springs and take the first shock, whereas with cork belts the men would probably break every bone in their body. The propellor is only fifteen inches in diameter, so the engineer lias duly a vague knowledge of what will happen when the four thousand horsepower is released. The designer allows for 12,500 revolutions per minute comnared with 6,800 revolutions of Miss England I. * The new boat weighs 4£ tons and is built of iwoocl, steel and aluminium. After tests at Windermere she will be taken to United States in the hope of wresting Gar Wood’s record from America.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1930, Page 5
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190MOTOR SPEED RECORD Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1930, Page 5
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