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apparatus are strung across the beach
To keep the car within this lane the
telescope sights will be adjusted upon
some point directly above the finish
wire and the car held to as true a
course in this manner as possible.
The Golden Arrow has a specially
constructed 12-cylinder wv type motor
capable of developing more than 1000
| horse power. The machine has four
wheel, water-cooled brakes and the
! motor will be cooled with crushed ice
/ tightly packed about the cylinder heads
The fuel for the machine will be a
/ specially prepared mixture of tetra-
ethyl lead, alcohol and benzol. Ether
| may be added to this mixture later.
The test for the record will be made
on the first good day between March l
and March Is, Maj. Segrave says. BY
good day Maj. Segrave means the
| first day that there is no wind to
either hinder or help the progress OF
the machine.
Maj. Segrave will not be alone in
his assaults upon the speed record
The triple motored. giant Triplex Spe-
! clal, owned by j. M. White of Phila-
| delphla, which now holds the official
record Of more than GOT miles an hour
over the beach at Daytona, will be on
hand. Mr.. White has announced, to
defend its title. Ray Keech drove this
car to the record mark a short time
after Maj. Segrave startled the world
by exceeding the -milas-an- hour
mark with his giant mystery" car.
The TripleX Special, which is
powered with three Liberty motors, has
been tuned up and is ready for the
question, 1t Is announced by White. The
cars. it is announced will not race each
other.
Maj. Segrave took occasion on his
visit here this week, while comforting
with officials of the contest board of the
American Automobile Association, to
make his answers to the critics of
super-speed cars and their drivers.
He said:
cit has often been said that it is
foolish to build cars like mine for tests
like I am going to make. Such things
also have been said about exploration
trips to the North Pole or similar
ventures.
However, the principal improve
ments on the motor car of today are
the direct result of racing. Take the
four-wfieel brakes, the detachable
wheels. II we had not had racing /
OonC tnlnK we would nave had any
thing like the improvements on the
automobile of today. In four or five
years the results of my experiments
will be invaluable to the motor world.
Then, too, there is the sporting
angle Of the thing. If can make
my fellow Englishman's chest swell one
inch with pride at my exploit In better
ing the world record for automobiles
over mile course will have accom-
plished most of what have set out tc
do
THE average Englishman has an in
feriority complex when 1t comes tc
competition with Americans for world
title at anything. It is largely to help
dispel that conviction of American SUI
periority in sporting ventures that ]
have undertaken this job. The Golden
Arrow will justify my confidence in II
and do great deal to build up ir
England pride in the achievements
of a Briton."
Maj. Segrave is not blind to the
dangers involved in the speed test he Is
undertaking. II a tire blows while the
car Is going along the beach at better
| than 200 miles an hour he'll know
nothing whatever about 1t. he says
The whole venture is one fraught with
danger. he says, and the least mjshar
at a high rate of speed might mean 8
badly mangled body in a mass of twisted
| iunk-metal.