Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-04-01
MOTOR BOATS
BEING BUILT
REMARKABLE CRAFT WILL CUT
WATER
Extravagant Predictions Made for
Novel Aquatic Touring Cars Of
Frenchmen-Eddle Bald Anti
clpates Much Racing

Two remarkable motor boats are
building In France that will be OBJ
served by racing enthusiasts with
great interest when they are ready
for trial.
One will be 40-foot automobile
craft having d triple screw-the first
application of the triple screw to the
autoboat-and will be equipped with
three eight-cylinder motors generating
power of 600 horse, the highest pow
cred craft of it's kind in the world.
1t is to be fitted with motors that
have other interesting and novel char
| acteristics. First, they will have neither
fly-wheels nor carburetters, but will lit
ject the petrol directly by means of
pumps. Then, too, the motor can be
reversed of itself by simply stopping
the engine and starting the switch In
the opposite direction by simply alter
ing the angle of the cams, which is
done automatically with the switch.
The most extravagant predictions are
made for the boat, the French builders
contending 1t will attain under favor
able conditions a speed of So kilometers
an hour, or nearly fifty-three miles.
She will be known as Antoinette ~,
and is expected to race in all the big
motor events.
The other boat will mark the first
application OF steam to the racing
launch. This is combination of the
Simpson Strickland steamers building
for Lord Howard de Wallen and called
the Rose en- Soleil.
The secret of construction is the re-
markable evaporative power claimed
for her boilers in comparison to her
weight, though how the apparatus is
to be fitted to a 40-foot speed launch
is difficult to understand.
Lord Howard de Wallen is confident,
however, that she will outclass her
petrol rivals.
Other notable competitors building
for the international cup races, in
which the American champion Dixie,
owned by E. ]. Schroeder, has been
entered, include the 4O-foot Sioia,
building for Lord Montague, whose
Napier won the cup last year. She
will be distinctive in that she will mark
the first application of the six cylinder
to the Napier engine and the Yarrow-
Napier combination racer, called
"1176," is expected to develop 26 knots.
The general tendency abroad. how
ever is toward the 100-horse power
engine in a 80 to 40-foot craft, de-
veloping moderate speed.
Ford Travels Fast
Record time was made on a regular
$1,000 model "F" Ford stock car by
George E. Kane of Philadelphia last
week. The car was driven from Phil
adelphia to Rexmont by way of Read
ing and Lebanon, covering a distance
of 961a miles in four hours fiat, which
would be over "a miles an hour. The
amount of gasoline consumed was five
gallons, the amount of lubricating oil
consumed was one pint, and the
amount of water consumed was one
a. fot ~ nnf
was driven the entire distance on the
high gear, and that he carried nine
people from Lebanon to Rexmont.
Motorists in France have their own
troubles, for the first offenders
clause did not save Comte Recope, of
cup fame, from being sentenced to
eight days Imprisonment and fine
for impudence in driving his motor
car and knocking down man near
Paris.
Eddie Bald. who is now selling cars
in the middle west, anticipates that
the sporting side of automobiling will,
this season, develop notable hill-climb-
ing contests and much track racing
with cars of regular touring and run
about types. He thinks that specially
built high powered racing cars will
not enter into track competition, al
though they doubtless will be used for
occasional exhibitions. He says that
racing on circular tracks has proved
too dangerous to further attract either
the ambitious driver or the average
spectator.
The automobilists of France are wor-
ried over the fact that the new min
istry will make it necessary for them
to get a new permit to hold the annual
road race. 1t is not known just how
some of the new men in control stand