THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929.
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Engineers Work on Cuban and Argentine Highways
COSTLY MOTORING
CAPT. CAMPBELL'S SEARCH FOR A BACKER ·
Verneuk Pan, April 24. sonal use in larger quantities than
The costliness of attempts on ever before, they are also buying the motor speed record is strik- bus transportation in such vastly ingly Illustrated by the state- becoming a leading public trans-that the "Bluebird," which cost increasing proportions that this is ment of Capt. Malcolm Campbell
Cuba and Argentina are both in the midst of extensive road building campaigns and have called on American engineers to construct many of their high-port business. ways.
The Cuban Central Highway, which will be the longest in Cuba when completed, runs along the backbone of the island, a distance of 705 miles, and will link the capitols of all six of Cuba's pro- vinces. The highway is to be paved its full length and will be about 20 feet wide with five-foot shoulders. The cost of construct- ing this Cuban highway, it is! estimated, will run elose to $75,000,000.
Labour conditions present the most difficult problem to engineers in a foreign country. One coun- try may have absolutely no facili- ties for making modern roads, but will have a mass of cheap labour that needs employment. Another may want to do all the work it- self under the direction of super- visors from the contracting firm. Practically all want to have an active hand in the construction. About 8,000 labourers are being employed on the construction of the Cuban highway.
Tucuman, in northern Argen- tina, also clamours for American engineers to construct its roads. An extensive programme, calling for the reconstruction of the en- tire urban area of the city and all roads leading into it, is under way. Here in this town surround- ed by mountains, many difficult engineering problems are encoun- tered. The plan calls for an ex- penditure of more than $4,000,000 on roads.
High up in the Andes moun- tains, 8,000 feet above sea level. Bogota, Colombia needs en- gineering advice. To construct
this country's roads engineers are confronted with a long trip up a river, two portages, more river, and then a winding, narrow-gauge train journey. Material is trans- ported with difficulty.
It is a splendid example of a city that is eager and able to do its own work. The only outside help has been road-building super- visors and the necessary ma- chinery with which to prepare and lay the proper pavement. The labour is almost exclusively local.
Bus Transportation Growing While people the world over are buying automobiles fur their per-
"NEVER AGAIN”
MOTORIST ON HIS 132 M.P.H. CAR DASH
"It was the most alarming and unpleasant experience I have had. I shall never do it again unless I have ideal conditions."
This is how Mr. Kaye Don summed up his record speed race in a galè at Brooklands. -He at- tained an average speed of just over 132 miles an hour in one lap-a speed greater than any reached on the track since it was built 22 years ago.
Af the fork of, the track near the sheds a terrific gust of wind caught | his car broadside and hurled it across the træk. Ie righted the car, and went on to complete the record lap
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"It was the worst drive I have ever had," he said.
"It was thrill when I was blown across the track. It got my car on the side and sent it right round. I had a big job to rectify it, because I was probably travelling then st 130-miles an hour.
"I had gone some distance before I could get it under control. I had gone right off my course, and had to get back on the top of the track. When I was travelling with the wind behind me on the Byfleet bank I must have been doing 145 miles an hour.
"The wind made the car do some curious thinge. It swerved from right to left and at first I thought
something must be wrong, but 1 put it down to gusts of wind catch- ing me first one way and then. another.
"I think my speed is very close. to the highest which the Brooklands
track will allow"
over £20,000, was valueless, ex-
he had always financed all his cars cept perhaps the engine. He said
with his own resources.
There are 250,000 miles of rail- with a total investment, in capital way lines in the United States stock and bond issues, of nearly $7,000,000,000. Yet while the railway mileage is one-third that the total investment in rails is of the bus routes in the country, more than twelve times as great. With such a vast system of 719,000 miles of bus routing, the not a very rich man.". He add- shown themselves to be a vast people of the United States have led:-
transient populace,
The 23,000,000 automobiles are not enough, it seems. Even the in- creasing bus systems are too few For this year statisticians pre- to accommodate the travellers. dict an increase in registration of at least another million new sand more buses will be packed motorists, while the several thou- full.
clientele, for people will keep on The railways will not lose their
travelling long distances by rail. of transportation in the short The buses will have their share
haul.
And then will come the air- ways: Although not as far ad- vanced as Europe in this branch of transportation, slowly and with safety, the airlines are breaking into the passenger trade.
Trace for the fun of it, not for
big expeditions are becoming too money," he declared, "but these
much for any individual who is
"If anyone in Great Britain or South Africa will finance an at- tempt in 1880, with a new car de- guarantee as far as is humanly signed with my assistance, 1 will possible, to break the motor do it at present.”. speed at Verneuk Fan, if I do not
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