MAJOR SEAGRAVE’S CAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3682, 25 August 1927, Page 4

MAJOR SEAGRAVE’S CAR.

The ordinary automobile owner, the sort of chap who is quite good at putting gas and oil into his car and who even on occasions fiddles desultorily with a spark plug might well recoil in horror from the 1000 k.p. monster Major 11. O. D. Seagrave took to Florida in an effort to drive at 200 miles an hour, on the Atlantic sands there. The car’s 'dashboard has twenty-eight separate instruxnents, and these do not include such things as clocks or gradient meters. They consist of: —- ■ Six oil pressure gauges. Eight magneto switches. One master nxagneto switch. Three radiator thermometers. Foui' engine revolution counters. Four camshaft oil pressure gau- , ges. Two air compression gauges. There are also three clutches. One connects each of the ear’s two engines to the gearbox, and the third regulates the transmission to the back wheels of the power which both engines generate. Strange as it may seem, one man is able to drive this monster. The services of four or five would seem more appropriate.