NEW WONDER-CAR
KAYE DON’S MACHINE FOR WORLD RECORD ATTACK WIND RESISTANCE DEVICE British. Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. The 4,000-li.p. Sunbeam motor-car Silver Bullet, in which Mr. Kaye Don, at Daytona Beach, Florida, in March, will endeavour to lower Sir Henry Segrave’s land speed record of 231.36 miles an hour, is approaching completion at Wolverhampton. Two immense engines, coupled in tandem, are in place. The car must be ready for shipment to America by the middle of next month, and the staff at the Wolverhampton works is working double shifts to complete it. The two engines occupy nearly all the space between the front and rear axles, leaving just enough room for the driver’s seat. The car weighs 2J tons, and is 25 feet long. Many ingenious devices have been introduced to reduce the wind resistance. The designer, Mr. Louis Coatelen, estimates that 95 per cent, of the enormous power of the car will be absorbed in overcoming that resistance.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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159NEW WONDER-CAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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