SPEED—300 M.P.H.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 702, 29 June 1929, Page 9

SPEED—3OO M.P.H.

NEW BRITISH CAR WILL ATTACK RECORD SWIFTEST, MOST COSTLY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Friday. In a dramatic manner, seated in Mr. Louis Coatalen’s Paris office, Mr. Kaye Don approved of the drawings of the most powerful motor-car in the world, with which he will attack the world’s land speed record. The drawings were immediately dispatched to Wolverhampton, where construction of the machine will begin in a secret corner of the Sunbeam works. In addition to being the most powerful car, it will be the most costly in the world, namely £25,000. It will be designed to travel at nearly 300 miles an hour. The biggest problem was wind pressure, but Mr. Coatalen, who is chief engineer of the Sunbeam Company, believes he can succeed in evolving a method of streamlining to prevent the car from trying to fly instead of keeping to the ground. Mr. Kaye Don is one of Britain’s most fearless and most skilled drivers, and is the idol of the Brooklands race crowds. The car will be called “Husli-Hush, No. 2.”