Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
N tires Of silk, in Q tremel1-
douS machine, powered by
q 1000 horsepower engine,
his body encASed In q

q 4,0O0-horsepower engine
his body encaSed In q
light, but powerful steel compart-
lnent, Kaye Don, an English rae
ing automobile driver, expects To
travel over the sands of Daytona
Beach next February at O speed
Of between $50 and 800 miles an
hour.
Dispatches from Wolverhamp-
ton, England, where Don and q
CORDS Of Automotive experts are
reported working on the land
speed demon, tell of secret con-
Struction Of the machine, behind
high walls and guarded gates.
Just what the new attempt to
break the record Of Sir Henry O.
D. Segrave's 231 miles an hour
over the smooth sands at Daytona
will bring forth is only in the
realm of conjecture, but the plans
for putting the newest big racing
car through its PAGES lends evil
dence TO the prediction Of Capt.
J. s. Irving, designer Of Sir Henry
Seerave's Golden Arrow, that cars
would be built within q year of
the making of the present record
on the straightaway, capable Of
speeds up to 800 miles an hour or
more.
Tires Big Problem.
Capt. Irving, in washington on
his return with Sir Henry Segrave
from the successful tests of the
Golden Arrow, last Spring said
that he could design q car that
would do far better than the
Golden Arrows record If he could
be assured Of some sort Of safety
above Sir Henry's record by tire
manufacturers.
When the Golden Arrow streaked
down the beach at Daytona last
Spring to establish the record Of
better than 231 miles an hour, the
tires on which 1t rode were the
acme Of perfection for rubber and
cotton fabric in the opinion Of the
leading British tire manufacturers.
Capt. irving regards as q relative
" simple matter the construction
Of the machine capable Of speeds
above the record Of Maj. Segrave.
but eight months ago he did not
place much faith in tires rs they
were known thenGAt speeds above
that figure.
Spent $75,oeo on Tires.
About $4,000 was spent in the
development Of the tires, which
did not show q mark after Sir
Henry Segrave finished his record
run on the broad sand speed
course, which Is regarded as the
finest natural straightaway in the
world. Those tires, however. were
not guaranteed for one second
above the 250-mile-an-hour mark,
which their makers set for them,
and for that reason Sir Henry adj
mitted he did not push the Golden
Arrow the limit in his record run.
Before he went to Daytona a
Washington newspaper reporter
asked Sir Henry what would hap
pen If q tire blew out while he was
going in excess Of 200 miles an
hour.
The Briton smiled and said: 1T
should never know anything about
It," It was true. A blown tire
would have left Sir Henry's car
Just . erumpled mass Of smoking
steel.
Every inch Of the cotton fabric
In the tires on the Golden Arrow
was tested, and scores of skeinS,
each composed Of about 7 miles
Of string, went into the making Of
Sir Henry's tires.
Silk Tires New Idea.
But the tires of silk, on which
Don hopes to ride to new record.
open up an entirely new avenue
Of thought in the tire-making in
dustry. There is every reason to
believe that silk in tire fabric
would be stronger and Withstand