NEW SPEED CAR

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1932, Page 6

NEW SPEED CAR

CAMPBELL AND THE RECORD

LONDON, December 18

“Next February I shall be sitting behind an engine, developing 2503 h.p., installed in my 15!v« 3-bird ear, comparer with the original 800 h.p. engine and the 1500 h.p. engine usd when I established the world record of 255 miles an hour,” .writes S'r Malcolm Campbell, the British speed motorist, in an article in tl*3 “Daily Mail.” He .'describes h.s preparations to defend the record. ‘‘The Bluebird car is now being lifted with a Rolls-Royce, aero engine, similar to that used by Flight-Lieutenant Ktainforth when he made tire air record of 400 miles an hour.

weighs one ton, and is the •mosttremendous power unit ever harnessed to a motor-car chassis.

“Th e chassis is being partially rebuilt to stand the strain, and is being litt'ed with an aluminium streamlined body.

“Twenty-seven feet in length, the car weighs several tons. It consumes 2.9 gailontj of petrol a minute. Ih e erg nc la so big that, from the driving s-eat, 1 cannot £?e over it. I must look along the cylinders' V banks.

“The car has no exhaust pipes. V nen the motor starts, ft belches yellow and blue flames and the r.olst i.s so terrific that I must use ear.protectors, similar to those us*d in the Navy during heavy gun practice. “Enthusiasts who expect me to reach 300 miles an hour must remember that the h e ach conditions and the wind may affect my calculations. “I understand that the American challenger win bo a 24-cylinder Mi Her car, developing 5000 h.p.’' ■Sir Malcolm Campbell's attempt t-o raise the -spesd record will lie made on Dayton Beach. Florida, United States.