200 MILES AN HOUR
| WHAT IT REALLY MEANS ! LEAPING OVER THE EIFFEL TOWER How many people really know what 200 miles an hour really means? When Major Se grave broke the world’s record on Daytona Beach, he could only stop his car by running into the sea, because, when he used his brakes the friction was so terrific that the alum inion lining of the brake shoes melted like butter and ran out at the bottom of the brakes! Some statistics have been worked out with a view of illustrating comparative : speeds. If you were to push a car over a precipice «I,oooft high—that is about 10 [ times the height of the Dilworth buildf ing, and let it drop sheer, the car would not be travelling more than 160 miles ’ an hour when it hit the ground. * If you w'ere to build a platform 400 ft long with one end on the ground, and , the other end as high as the Dilworth building, and then ran the car up the ’ slope at 200 miles an hour, it would, . after leaving the platform, attain a height of 1,280 ft before descending to t earth. This is 300 ft higher than the - Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in . th© world. 3 - ' . , ■ =============== :■
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 8
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209200 MILES AN HOUR Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 8
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