Mr. Cobb was driving a car spec-jolly designed for the World's Record by R. A. Railton and built by Messrs. Thompson & Taylor; it is fitted with two Napier Lion super-charged 12- cylinder Aero-Engines each of 1250 h.p, one of which drives the front wheels and the other the rear wheels.
The car has an all-enclosed streamline body, the driver's cockpit being in front of the front axle. It has been specifically designed to travel faster than any other car at present in existence; the design, however, is so revolutionary that experts differ on the possibilities.
The streamline effect is not spoiled by radiator or fin: a fin is useless unless the car skids badly and then its value is problematical. Only the cover over the driver's cockpit, and ihe four covers over the top of the tyres break the body line.
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