500 MILE RACE
CARS MUST DO 100 M.P.H. IN BIG INDIANAPOLIS CONTEST. More cars than ever before are being prepared for the 500-mile race at Indianapolis, which is due to take place on May 30 next. In consequence, the organisers of the event have decided to increase the entry fee of 200 dollars and to raise the qualifying speed from 85 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h. In the 1931 event only two of the 40 cars which started showed less than 1000 m.p.h. in the qualifying trials. Already Harry Miller, the famous Los Angeles designer and constructor of front driving ars, has announced that he is huilding a four-wheel-drive car for the event. It will have a 16cylinder engine, all four wheels will be independentiy sprung, and the transmission system will include a hydraulic clutch, which appears to he on similar lines to the Daimler fiuid flywheel. The car is being built for a Detroit doctor and after the race the frame and propeller shaft are to be lengthened and the chassis fitted with a saloon body. Miller has also designs on the land speed record. He plans to build a car with a duplicate engine of one already built for Gar Wood. It has 16 cylinders and is stated to develop 1800 b.h.p. at 6000 r.p.m. Complete with magnetos, supercharger, and other components, it weighs 16351b.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 152, 19 February 1932, Page 7
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226500 MILE RACE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 152, 19 February 1932, Page 7
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