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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING" SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930.

Studebaker's Dynamic New Erskine

NAPOLEON'S COACH

FOR SALE

MY BID TO BEAT 231 M.PH

The Dynamic New Erskine Regal Sedan

The Erskine motor is mounted on blocks of live rubber. Four point rubber insulated suspension provides a cushioning which sub- dues motor vibration..

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Nobody wants Napoleon's royal coach-at least not Americans. Antiques are all right in their way, even at $4750 each, but a bulky old Briska like the one pictured above would be too much in the way. Note the folding steps--an amazing innovation that day-with which the coach is equipped.

By Milton Bronner.]

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Tremendous Risks Involved.

By Kaye Don in “The Dally Mall,”]

& saw speed

I am setting.out on the greatest] been taken to ensure an adequate and most thrilling "adventure of margin of safety in the design of my life. This task of beating the this new British car which, it world's land speed record of 231 hoped, will create miles an hour is the biggest record for Britain. have ever undertaken or ever shall

One cannot undertake.

help realising the many, real dangera involved in this attempt, but the ensure that the best use of stream- realisation of our object will lining has been made.

tests have shown that the ear- justify the risks entailed,

should keep firmly on the ground

Special wind tunnel teats have been carried out with models te

These

At Wolverhampton now the despite the tremendous air pres finishing touches are being put to sure..

in

I think the danger from fire and

the Silver Bullet, the all-British 4,000-hip. Sunbeam special which I hope to create a new the bursting of oil or petrol pipes has been eliminated Despite every care, however, there is

world's record for Britain.

Mr.

Louis Coatalea has designed for always a danger of something me a car which is an amazing breaking or selzing. The fracture example for British engineering of a spring even would be skill. It can justly be described.

extremely serious. Again, if the as a mechanised bullet.

brakes or engine were to "seizu," the car would, in all probability, 1get out of control.

'Cost £25,000.

So far, the greatest speed I have ever attained on land is 152 miles an hour down the straight at Brooklands.

Tremendous Strain.

The tyres will have to undergo At 300 tremendous strain. N

The Silver Ballet has been built miles an hour, the wheels will be at a cost of nearly £25,000, to doing something like 3,000 revolu- travel at between 250 and 300 tions every minute. The centri miles an hour. Anyone who has fugal force thus set up would in- raced a motor-ear will be able to crease the normal diameter of the Imagine the terrific wind velocity tyres by one inch. encountered at such a high speed.

than

At the same speed, the tyres consume 10 lean London, Feb. 6th. In a dusty world celebrities, also wanted

If I were to expose my head at would bara in the East East End of Lon-collection of genuine relics con- don stands a coach of old-fashioned nected with great historical events, all while travelling at 250 miles 1,792,000 foot pounds of energy hour on Daytona Beach every minute. That is enough to design which recently was offere! So she brought the old coach. It an

The for sale in the classified columns of was put on show in the great cen- should certainly be knocked un-lift an ordinary express passenger a New York newspaper for the tral hall of the building she conscious and might conceivably train right off the ground.

occupied.

lose my head altogether! To pro- two engines of the Silver Bullet modest sum of $1,750.

tect the driver, an exceptionally Inre rated at 4,000-b.p., and, of this Rescued From Fire. ~ Sounds like a lot of money for a

strong wind-screen composed of total, the tyres alone will consume second-hand vehicle when for that

In 1926 a great fire completely safety glass in a steel frame, is 200-h.p., or twenty times that of price one can buy a few up-to-date, automobiles. But if inanimate ob-gutted the Tussaud museum and being fitted to the Silver Bullet, some light motor-car engines.

One of the 2,000-h.p. engines in the event of any small object, jects could talk, the old coach pro- the old coach was one of the few but even so, there is still a danger, bably would deliver this sad mono-things rescued.

factory with its roar. When both Tussaud's sold it to the motor such as a bird hitting the wind-alone, when firing, shakes the logue:

engines are "revved" up it will engineering firm of G. Scammel screen, of its being shattered. How the mighty have fallen and Nephew in Fashion Street, I remember on one occasion at be necessary to wear ear plugs to Once upon a time I was cherished: London. They, in turn, figured Brooklands, while making a record deaden the sound. now I stand in this old burn. Once that America would be the best attempt, my car struck a cat when Added to this will be the nolas many servants kept me spotless market. Some museum or motor travelling at about 120 miles an of the other working parts of the now I am neglected and dusty.

car manufacturer might like to hour. Afterwards I found that a car, which will all be moving... Once my sides were glossy with have a collection of vehicles of one-and-a-half-inches thick steel terrific speeds. The blower fans bright royal blue paint and there various periods. Hence the ad: steering-track red had been bent alone, which take the place of

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"Napoleon's coach-World famed like a piece of wire. If a bird or thistorical coach;

remarkably any small object were to strike the superchargers, will be turning at fine preservation, embossed royal windscreen while it was moving 30,000 revolutions a minute, or 606 realise that, to say the least of it, crest, complete hood. postillons at 250 miles an hour the result revolutions a second, so you will

would be very unpleasant.

mine should be not only a very seat, shaft; $4750.

But thus far there have been

But that is a gloomy outlook exciting but also a very noisy Every possible precaution has adventure. no offers.

one saw a brilliant red 'N' and an equally brilliant red crown.

"Oh, I was the coach of coaches, all right. Two splendid' horses, black as coal, pulled me along. A driver in splendid livery sat in my front seat and gathered up the reins. A postillion sat in the seat behind. Crack, went the driver's whip, and we drove out of the stable and

a fine palace. up to

door, Other lackies opened the pulled down my folding steps and.. bowed respectfuly as a fat little man with raven black hair and pallid skin and piercing eyes step- ped in to sit comfortably on my grey brocaded seat.

As gor

a

Napoleon Wus Owner. "He was not dressed geously as his lackies. He usually wore an old green coat with white vest and a black cocked hat. Oh yes, the year was 1814 and the man, as you have guessed, was the great Napoleon. When the Em- peror took the air, while resting in Paris from his campaigns, it was I that took him riding.

"But he hadn't many more days cf such pleasures. Came defeats and exile to Elba. Cáme his es-f cape and his triumphal marchi across to France, his marvellous entry into Paris, and his campaign which ended in Waterloo, his sur- render to the English, and then his life-long captivity on the island of St. Helena. He feil, so have 1.7 But the old coach only told part of its romantic story. The Musee de Voitures of France advises that for a long time after Napoleon's exile, the old coach remained un- noticed and unused by the Bour- bon kings who had been restored' when to the throne. Afterward, Napoleon 111, nephew of the great Napoleon, mounted the throne by a coup d'etat, the old Brisko was once more brought out. Its big "N" and its crown would do as well for Napoleon the Little as it did for Napoleon the Great.

The First "Sedan."

So once more the coach played its part in history, for after the disastrous battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the tragic emperor travelled in this coach to surrender to the victori- ous Prussian troops. Hence it got its name of "Sedan Carriage.".

In the latter part of 1871, an enterprising tradesman of Paris conceived the Idea of forming a collection of relics of the Franco- Prussian War, the French Revolu- tion and the days of Napolean the First and of making an exhibition of them...

He opened the exhibition in London in the autumn of 1872; But the show did not prosper and the exhibits were sold by auction. * Madame Tussaud "had opened her world-famous exhibition of wax works in Baker street and, in addition to the wax figures of

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