SIR M. CAMPBELL'S AIM

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 414, 24 December 1932, Page 2

SIR M. CAMPBELL'S AIM

BLUEBIRD BEIN(J REFIT11ED WITH ROLLS-ROYCE AERd ENGINE ^ • : j TREMENDOUvS POWER . I London, Saturday. i "Nest Fe'orimry I shall be sittifig bei hind an engine developing 2500 h.p., i coivi})ared with the one of SOOh.jA ori- ! ginaliy in the Bluehird and "that of J IfiOOh.p. when I made Ihe record of | 252 miles an honr." j Sd writes Sir Malcolm Campbell l in the Daily Mail, deseribng- his pi*e-pai-ation.s to det'ond his world'a land apeed record. "The Bluehird," he sayts, "is now i heing fitted with a Rolls-Royce aero j engine, similar to that in the seaI plane in which Flight-Lieut. Staini forth niude the world'.-; air record oi' j 400 miles an hotu*. , "It, weighs a ton, and is the most tremendous power unit ever liarnessed • to a motor car chassis, which is be- ! ing partially rehuilt to stand the j strain, Fitted with an aluminium, | stream-li nel hody, the car, 27 feat | in lengtli. will weigh several tons, and j will constune 2.0, gallons of petrol a j minute. T.errific Noise "The etigine is so big that from the driving seat I cannot see over it and must look along the cylinders' 'V' banks. It has no exhaust pipes, and when the motor staxts it belehes yellow and bkre ames, while the noise is so territic that I must use earpvotectors similar to those used in iho navy during heavy gun practice. "Enthusiasts who expect me to travel at 300 miles an hour must ramember that beach conditions and the wind may aifect my ealculations. I understand that the American challenger will have a 24-cylinder Millar etigine developing 5000 horse-power."