A REAL JUGGERNAUT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3520, 5 August 1926, Page 4

A REAL JUGGERNAUT.

Word comes from England of a giant motor-ear designed by Louis Coatalen, of the Sunbeam Company. The car is a Sunbeam, officially rated at 1000 h.p., and will yield a speed of 200 to 230 miles an hour. It is so unwieldly that if will only travel at speed in a straight line. The car has two engines—one housed at the front of the ear and the other over the rear axle and is fed with petrol from eight carburetters. Its ignition will be supplied from no fewer than 12 magnetos of British manufacture- —in fact, the car throughout, down to the smallest detail, is to he British made. Each engine lias twelve cylinders, making 24 in all. There are four valves to each cylinder a total of 96. There are two sparking plugs to each cylinder, a total pf" 48. The thirst of the monster will be terrific. An allowance is being made of three gallons of petrol for each minute the engine is running. This works out at, roughly, one mile to the gallon. The ear is designed for an attempt on Mr. Parry Thomas’s speed record of 171 miles an hour, and Major H. O. D. Segrave, who will drive the monster in September next, hopes to reach a speed of more than 200 miles an hour.