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RACING MACHINE.
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Kaye Don to Attack Sir Henry Segrave's Record.
WATER COOLING BALAN KETMEN.
TWO HYLINDER DHOMES
QUADRUNI BOWER
DAVENPOR LAYSHAFTS
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Sketch of Kayé Don's racer which is expected to bes; the 2014-mile-an-hour record of Sir Henry Segrave,
Mensuring Kaye Don up for the racer he will drive at Day- tona Beach in March in an effort to raise the present high speed. record.
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famod British driver, will raise[euadriple superchargers, Sir Henry Segrave's record by a each engine. What is called considerable margin.
"layshaft" runs the length of The new racer which will take both engines, connecting and to the Daytona Beach sands some-ynchronizing both through suit- time between March 1 and 15, is
able gears.
There are two water pumps, unique in many respecís. It is aj
100 horsepower affair, with two one to each side of both engines, 12-cylinder engines mounted while three oil pumps keep the Landem and a separate drive for all circulating and cooling around each rear wheel. It is built tankshafts, other moving partN the measurements of its driver. Its and through the crankcase chassis and body meneuring only Head Resistance Lowered. two feet six inches across; -It A
has, however, a wheelbase of 15] : Perhaps most novel of all fen- feet and its wheels reach out from tures in this racer is the way the, narrow body to a width of frontal area has buen reduced in five feet,
order to decrease the car's head resistanen. According to Louis Coatalen, Sunbeam engineer. who is building this car, 95 per cent. of the car's tremendous power has to be spent overcoming head resistance while the remaining five per cent. is taken up by frictional resistance.
Double Body Cool Water. The entire car is encased within a shell, above and below, so that it will float if it happens to be driven into the sea. Instead of a radiator it has a doublo shall within which the water flows to be cooled.
Reduction of head resistance. Despite the car's size and the is attained by the use of two pra- immensity of the engines, the peller shafts, one for each wheel, entire affair weighs only two and so that the driver can be set low a half tons which affords the between them, rather than high remarkably low ration of 1.4 above the. conventional single pounds of weight to the horse shaft. At the same time there is power.
no need for a differential.
What occasions this low waight
The shafts are driven by means
is the use of aluminum for body of a multiple disc clutch and When Sir Henry Segrave plane of the British fetor, H. and engine blocks, the cylinders through the regular three-speed turned to England Inst March D, Waghorn, who wou the lined by the new nitralloy steel, transmission, but the clutch Is with his record average of 231.4 Schneider cup race last September, This steel has a high degree of locked positively to the crank miles an hour, it was generally with a bead 3286 miles an hardness and a smouth glass-like shaft as soon as the car gets inta believed that this was about the hour. This is the fastest speed, surface, and increases the power motion. ultimate speed man could attain on man har ever attained by any of the engines from 10 to 15 per turn up 700 revolutions a minute The propeller shafts - tand.
cent. The pistons, too, are of ith the motors running at 4000. His special racer had skimmed Nowever, The Autocar.forged alumium,
In order to assure good visibility over the measured mile, both with revenly much more powerfu}}
for the driver, the seat has been Nitralloy steel also composes and against the wind, along the racing automobile is being bulli the material of the seven bearing sprung independently of the chas- Daytona Beach in Florida not at the Sunbeam factory with which crankshafts, while aluminum issis by means of a counterweight much slower than the special air-t is hoped Kaye Don, another used as housing for the two equal to the weight of Don Kaya
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Has Many Safety Features:
No end of trouble has been taken to afford the uiniost prolec- tion for Dou. The armored plate. underneath, with an upward curve in front; will not only help reduce head resistance but act as a skid in case the car runs into the son or the wheels collapse.
A stout bulkhead in front will prevent any possible fire from the engines reaching the driver, Simi- har guards at each side will protect him if any of the pro peller shafts happen to break louse. And steel hoops within the body are designed to maintain ita shape in ease the car rolls over.
The steering mechanism and the brakes, tun, have been.designeð with an eye to the driver's protec tion. Euch front wheel is sipered: independently and positively by MCANA of a drop arm'running. across from the centre steering gear. The hydraulic brukes have self-sealing devices so that it is impossible for all four to fail if there should be a leak ng any point In the system.
For further safety, if it is found nécessity, a fin will be fitted to the tail of the car, to as- sure stability.
Dunlop Tyres.
The tyres, like those on Sir Henry Segrave's cùr, are special Dunlops, their fabric consisting of pure silk over which is aprayed a thin layer of rubber by a special
process,
The speed trials to be made. by this car are expected to beneft aviation more than motoring, "for Costalen has built the engines. with the view of adapting them to largetype airplanes,
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Keep your car in sound conel- tion; keep your car under control; keep your eyes on the road; never fight for the right of way; go along with the procession; be courteous; [know your local traffic rules, take pride in your driving skill; don't mix liquor, worry or angor with gasoline study local maps and ex- periment for shorter and less con- gested routest and
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1930.
WEAR WHITE CAPES. GIVING IT BACK.
Coroner's Suggestion.
State Petrol Tax.
“CUTTING IN
Stiff Fry
at Home,
William Patterson, of HM street Fonders Ends, Enfield 11. 6d. costs at Enfield recently Middlesex, was fined £5 with: EV for dangerous driving. It was. stated that he cut in so sharply on two other cars that both were foredd into the kerb. There wa no collision.
"It seems as if pedestrians will
Motorists in Wisconsin (U.S.A.) have to keep a sharper look-out will welcome a decision of the or imitate the policemen and wear Bureau of Internal Revenue in white capes," remarked
the effect, this will allow them to do Shoreditch Coroner, Dr. Edwin duct from their income tax any Smith, at an inquest, recently on amounts paid in petrol tax to the Agnes Wastell (69), widow; She-
Stäte. pherdess Walk, Hoxton, who was fatally injured by a motor vou. An earlier ruling of the bureau Sir Henry Bowles, the chairman hold that the tax was paid by the of the Bench, and he did not think The driver of the van said the petrol dealers. The American it made any difference whether woman was wearing dark clothing Motorists Association held that there was an accident or not. and he did not see her until she the dealers passed it on to the "Cutting-in is a very selfish fault," was within four feet of the front motorists, and this obvious fact he said, "because a motorist, re- * brought a remission of taxation on gardless of anyone else, wants to
go ahead of other cars.
of the van.
The CoronerIt is known that incomes. pedestrians cannot be seen by motor drivers' until they are in the middle of the road. They present conditions even the most lighting is rather poor. carried something white, such as trians until they are would be better seen if they careful drivers cannot, suc pèdes- The jury returned a verdict of in the "accidental denth," and exonerated"
newspaper, at night. Under roadway, especially where the the driver.
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