A ROCKET ON WHEELS
This is the sort of thing that is going to give traffic officers a headache in future if Herr Opel, the inventor of the rocket car, is not suppressed. Recent cables described a trial of the car on a racecourse near Berlin. There are 12 huge rockts in the tail. The driver makes his will (that is desirable), switches on the current which ignites the rockets and then disappears amid black smoke and a terrifying din, at a starting-rate of about 112 miles an hour. Herr Opel talks calm ly of a speed of 700 m.p.h., at ar altitude of 20 miles, in a plane propelled on this principle, in which he would circumnavigate our small planet in a day. So the next time ar unscheduled comet appears in the blue we need not be surprised if Herr Opel drops in at Hobsonville.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 7
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147A ROCKET ON WHEELS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 7
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