BRITISH MADE
, TIMING A fJPEED DASH The apparatu:; for timing the attempts on the world's land speed record at the Ninety-Mile Beach in December is th first set entirely of British make. It Avas made in London for the Auckland Automobile Association, and is valued at £500. Just how sensitive is this apparatus is shown by the fact that the starting and finishing lines are marked by a beam light. As the car breaks this light ray the chronometer notes the time, and there is none of the danger that results from having a wire stretched across the course. At Daytona Beach the late Sir Henry Segrave'had wires bedded in rubber and pegged into the sand. Timing sets are rare. There is one at the Brookland track, one at a speedway near Berlin, in Germany, and one at Mont Thierry, near Paris, besides that at Daytona.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 87, 3 December 1931, Page 7
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