Sir Malcolm C. ybeil, with his famous Blue Bird caf, has arrived at] Daytona Beach, Florida, where he attempting to break his own world speed. record of 271 miles an hour. The beach has been prepared for his attempt and his car with its 2,500 horsepower Napier engine, the largest single unit ever to be fitted to a motor car, has apparently satisfied all tests. 'The only thing to do now is to break' the record. This may sound like extravagant claim but Sir Malcolm has broken records with such a regularity that his efforts are almost monotonous to the general public. To the engineer, however, they represent astounding advances in design and performance for nowadays speed is Hot a question of, packing a large mount of horsepower into the' smallest possible space but a very careful analysis of much more im-Portant factors, chief among which is streamlining, which reduces resistance and tremendously improves efficiency of the power unit, A more amazing fact to the general public is not the machine, but the man driving it. Sic Malcolm Campbell, who has been breaking records since 1910, recently celebrated his 50th birthday which certainly disproves the old description of the man being "too old at forty." During the, Great War, the youngest of men, mere youths so 10 [Speak, were the air aces but the age average of the London-Melbourn® air race was considerably higher, showing that mechanical efficiency nowadays is as much in the hands of the long-trained and experienced operators as in the years of experience and experiment which produced the " machine. When Sir Malcolm established his last record of 271 miles an hour, he was travelling so fast that it needed a relay"of aeroplanes to make an air view which could be reproduced clearly on the screen. If ever ambitious youth should pay a tribute to sere and tried age it should be paid to Sir Malcolm Campbell.
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