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CAMPBELL'S DIFFICULTIES.
Obstacles in Record Speed Trial
Few people have ever under- Another trouble is that the Pan taken so big a task as Malcolm can be an inferno in 'the hont, so Campbell in his. attojipt to find a much so that this factor made it suitable track on which to attack diflicult to oblain any work from the world's speed record' on' land, the natives' employed in clearing Some of the dimedļlies werk, not, the track. The vexed queation of of course, foroseon. One has a mirages is interesting. There are shrewd iden that the person who mirages and they are unpleasant, first suggested Verneukt Pan as a but it is just possible that, by site for the attack is finding that, waiting for a suitable day, there life, is a more troublesome Affair would. bo sufficient range of visibi- than usual even in the human. lity to allow the car to be driven span of existence!? at its maximum...
Record work is trying enough in Clearing the track, which, by itself, and additional difficulties
are most unpleasant Neverthe the way, has to be something like less, there is one great point, in twenty miles long and probably a that to attain success in the face mile wide, is in itself a consider- of all the, obstacles encountered able problem. The original speci would be the more, meritorious.ficution seems to have been ́n First of all, it must be remem. Hsection sixteen miles long, and that In actual bered that Verneuk Pan is 456 is not yet complete.
one can possibly say miles from Cape Town by the fact, no direct route, and that the direct whether or not the place is flat route. Is in itself difficult. There enough for the purpose until the are no roads, and the car has to fear is tested on it.
be conveyed, therefore, over dift With proper organisation, and cult scrub country which is with with plenty of money to make the out overmuch water.. The means track suitable, Verneuk Pan might of conveying the car to the Pan id yet be a better place than Daytona, to take a big Thornycroft six for its inaccessibility is in its whealer, pack the Napier-Camp favour, since the "circus element" bell on the top of it, and set off is eliminated owing to the difficul-
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Campbell's car was towed from of for the rest of their lives, and the docks by another. Thornycroft, the lorry should have a fine testi lorry smaller than the one set monial for use hereafter.
The suggestion is that it would aside to transport the machine to be possible to do the journey in the Pan, and has had its final forty-eight hours if all goes well. adjustments made at Robertson
and Moss's stores in Cape Town. Verneuk Pan itself would be a capital place for a record attack Obviously, another track for if it could be made right, but if world's records will have to be the statements. that it is. 2,000ft found sooner or later; but, in view above sea-level are accurate, the of the obstacles inevitably con- power of the engine will be confronting anyone who wishes to Biderably reduced.. This is attack the existing figures, tha handicap which is more than mass of extra difficulties presented irritating, but there is no absolute because some unknown and un- selected is a proof that the Pan, ia as high as tried place was has been suggested, and it may be heavier handicap than it is wise to that the position is considerably face, easy though it is to be wise brighter than rumour would leave after the event.
one to anticipate.
The nearest railhead is 120 miles), Daytona, with all its ulmculties, from the Pan itself, at a town is a place where, for a certain fact, called Zak River, and some sort of a car can average 240 m.p.h., and, transport service would have tons the data concerning the type of be organised from the railway to car used accumulates, could be! the track. The nearest water used at 300 m.p.h. It would have supply is a not very pleasant been much better, therefore, for natural hole containing a brackish Campbell to have gone to Florida liquid, and situated five miles from rather than to Africa, though the idea: underlying) the the Pan. It ought to be possible original
be
to stablish dumpa en route, but African venture was good, for whether boring for water would, Campbell wanted the whole affair, be successful after the failure of Including the location, to the original experiments it is dif- British. ficult to say,
MOTORING IN US.
Analysis Registrations for 1928...
BUICK'S POSITION.
Some very interesting figuras showing registrations by States of all different makes of Motor Cars) manufactured in the United States during the year 1928 have just An been received in Hongkong, analysis of these figures gives nol only the popular trend in the Coun- try as a whole, but also the per- ference in each of the 48 States.
Chevrolet was the largest manu facturer of motor cars and trucki with total registrations of 767,760. In this particular low priced four cylinder feld Ford was second with 481,340.
Buick again lead in the manufac ture of six cylinder cars in any and all price classes, with 195,690, leading its nearest price clasé rival Chrysler with 142,636 registrations, by 63,056 eurs. Nish was third in this price class with 114,980 and Studebaker fourth with 84,420,
Buick is apparently the popular car as the registration figures show it surpassed its nearest competitor, Chrysler, in all the 48 States ex- cept four, and Lead, the Nash in all States,
Pontiac was second to the Buick as the largest manufacturer of six
cylinder cars in any and all prico einssos, Pontiae registrations show
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