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WHEN THE FIRE WORKS STARTED IN ROCKET CAR TESTS.
This striking photo shows the speed trials, at Berlin of the rocket propelled automo- bile designed and driven by Fritz von Opel, Emitting a trail of smoke and flame from the tubes in which the rockets were mounted, the car attained a speed of 621 miles an hour within two seconds of the start, finally reaching 125 miles before the rockets were exhausted.
The downward sloping wings on each side of the machine were designed to prevent it from actually dying. Von Opel, however, expects to employ the device on a real airplane and be- -
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FOR DRIVERS.
"LURE OF SPEED."
Major Segrave's Bright Some
Book.
THE CLOSED CAR.
Useful Hints. Popularity Steadily
Increasing.
.
If there is anything in the rule that practies makes perfect, then The name of Segrave is known there is a simple enough oxplana- surely waning in popularity has That the open car is slowly but to motorists throughout the world tion for the imperfect driving by been true for so long as to become as that of the world's most famous a great many people. What with merely a wearisome platitude. In race driver and the first man to the garage man, putting the car face of the supply of cheap and achieve a speed of 200 mph. on away for us at night and no park-excellent saloons It is gradually land. Amongst the experts of all ing signs urging ua to follow the being rolegated to a nations Major H. O. D. Segrave is straight and narrow path of the position in the standard range of secondary generally acknowledged to lie pne traffic procession, it isn't any won-almost every class of of the finest drivers the world has der that, in a pinch, driving skill cheapest as well as the most ex- produced. No man has had is tried and found wanting.
car, the
grouter or more successful ex- It pays to keep in trim even if pensive. Designed as an open perience of racing in the post-war there appears to be no immediate body that could be made to close period, and no one is better quali- need for indulging in some fine gives a long and fair trial in the up after a fashion, it has been fed to write about racing and steering or neat manoeuvring. An hands of the motoring public, and speed from the driver's point of excellent exercise is to drop it has been found wanting. In view. Motorists will be interested cigarette box on the street and try to learn that the famous, driver to crash it by running ever it with their time all-weather equipment, has written of his wide and varied a particular front wheel. Where with the doors, have proved a 1.e, rigid aidescreens that open experiences in 4 book entitled, hoods are long and seats low it veritable boon. When they first "The Lure of Speed," which in full isn't any simple matter to do this, became universal, in 1928, thay of sound reasoning gad careful Another good exercise ip to. wrought transformation In thought. Major Segrave attributes scatter ↑
empty much of the credit for our modern cigarette boxes around on some motoring for those who, whether speed achievements to the pioneer dead end of a quiet street and try their travelling in open cars. for preference or perforce, did efforts of the early cycllata. He to drive through them without But, with vory few exceptions, writes: "In particular, the early crushing a single one of them. In the beat of such equipments are cyclist deserves the gratitude of some cities contests have been draughty. The side-scroons rattle those of us who live in an era of held with difficult courses, marked if they are, thoroughly rigid, and high speed, and fid it pleasant to 'out with tepins. ·
do so. Had it not been for his atrenuous demands for sonusthing |
number of
Bignals Important.
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flap or gapo open if they are not. Visibility when the car is, shut up Is-poor, partly because the fram-
faster than the iron.tyre, and then Have you ever had occasion to Ing of the screen necessarily occu- for something better than the solid make a sudden stop, only to dis-pics a lot of what should be win- rubber tread, we might have had to cover that when you wait a long time for Mr. Dunlop's signal the man behind the window that the material is difficult to want to dow space, partly owing to the fact revolutionary invention. It has in glass is up and you can't get your clean compared with glass, and, in all probability made a bigger hand out in time to be effective? the result, rarely does get clean- difference to the lives of the inha- Signal lightqpre so commonplace ad, because of the danger of bitants of the earth than any that often they fail to attract scratching t In fact, compared other invention, with the possible attention, and to be on the safe with the trim and self-contained exception of the compass, the side, the corselentious driver tries saloon, the best of open cara now- steam engine, and the electric tele-to remember to signal with his adays looks slovenly once it has! graph."
hand and arm. Caught with the lost the bloom and freshness of window closed, what's wrong with its first youth.. Already, if the Pioneering Days,
swinging open the door? That truth must be faced, this type of Major Segrave has a very high can be accomplished in an instant body looks as old-fashioned as a and it is effective. As a matter of last year's frock. Onco one has opinion
of the performances fact, it probably would attract owned a modern saloon and be achieved by the old school of race mere attention from some drivers come used to its neatness, with no drivers in the early years of the than the sight of an optstretched loose bits to be tucked away or century'"Compared with what arm. they did in those early days, the,
secured against rattle, there seems exploits of the post-war racing careators on the instrument board are of touring cars; and since fashion These engine temperature indi-something unmedish about the best drivers seem puny indeed." He interesting devices, but not very has come to mean so states that in his opinion Gabriel's many drivers take advantage of motoring to day, it is believed that much in performance in the ill-fated. Paris the opportunity to regulate engine this stigma will prove the final Madrid race of 1803 "will rank as temperature by them. If the in-nail in the coffin of the open body one of the greatest that has ever dicator is considerably bolow the as a standard touring model. Its been done on road or track with a normal running temperature, for demise may take years yet; but racing car". Further on he points instance, why not run a while with one cannot blink the fact that it is out that racing and the racing the spark retarded? Or, if the almost inevitable. car today are very different from engine appears to be running too sports cars, of course, and on other On standard what they were in the early days. hot and there are no other com- types on which the purchaser has "Racing to-day is altogether aplications, such as a slipping fan the different problem. Whereas in the bolt, insufficient water or too little special order, the open car will means to have it built ta old days the strain was 90 per cent.ell in the crankcase, why not certainly remain with us. Now a physical one, to-day, it is 90 per coast as much as possible? A re- the vogue of the saloon has taught cent, a nervous one. Although tha tarded spark heats up an engine.us what comfort is. Even the cara necesaltate less physical When effort, they are a great deal more idling will raise engine tempera-to-day provides a degree of com- a car is standing still,cheapest saloon on the market dangerous, in my opinion, than ture; but when there is a strong forland efficient comfort, devold their prototypes, because, owing to draft of air through the radiator, of rattles and squeaks-that two their extreme lightness, and to the coasting with the engine idling or three years ago would have very high speeds which they are tends to lower the temperature, capable of attaining, it has become necessary for the driver's entire faculties to be kept constantly alert."
diate advantages to the concerna
taking part in races. He writes:
In my opinion those manu-
A Friend's Advice,
Future Hopes.
been thought impossible at any. thing like the price. There are still people whose.......attraction to Letting a friend drive the car is the saloon Jaunwilling; who, a good way to check up on some though drawn by the amazing de- In a chapter entitled, "Why of the things that may be gree of sheer comfort provided by Firma Race" Major Segrave re-troubling you. A stranger at the the modern closed body, still views the technical advances that wheel apes things from a different hanker after the open type, and have been made through this angle and can often offer valu- till deeply regret ita demlag medium and discusses the frame-able suggestions.
Thus it is that we are coming to consider types of saloons that can open. That is to say, from the Major Segrave has no very san- open car that could be closed- facturers who have persistently guine hopes for the future of the after a fashion we are coming held to a racing policy have racing car, and gives as his rea- coming round to the choool car placed most of their rivals under a song the fact that owing to the that can be opened. A body which very deep debt of gratitude, for it near state of perfection which the when the hood is up a complete is they who have blazed the trail automobile has reached at the saloon, not a makoshirt, and whon which others have been able to present day, the need for carrying it is down is he nearly as possible follow." He attributes the pre-out experiments along unorthodox an open touring cbr, ja, the actual sent state of development to such lines has diminished. Therefore, ideal. That, when it materiallsos. features as the "straight-eight" the need for constructing specialis will be the true all-weather body, engine, the easily changed spare ed racing cars will automatically wheel, the modern economical and diminish also. Thus, I think that, powerful small engine, weight re-although there will, of course, al- duction, the aluminium, alloy' pls-ways be motor racing, the type of ton, heat-resisting valves, the car that our firms will race will Japan plans to spend Y,10,000,- supercharger, front wheel brakes, gradually evolve itself into a 000 in the next ten year for the and steadiness on the road to rac-boosted' or 'hotted up" edition of ¡ construction and improvement of 'ing experience.
ita touring brother."
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