Show Speed Mark Presents Spectacular Picture Host Flost of Eng Engineers W Working Work Work- ork- ork ing lug to Improve Campbell's Campbells Camp hens hells Bluebird Car Editors Editor's Note This is another of or an Associated Press Pres series reviewing rc the accomplishments and touching upon the personality of Sir Malcolm l Campbell Camp Camp- bell beU famous British sportsman 4 NEW YORK Feb 13 Pi 13 Picture ture turc an ocean beach its slope so gradual as not to be bc discernible to the eyes Inand In- In land and land rising from the smooth smoot surf surface acc arc are unending row of or sand dunes dunes- dunes packed with thousands thousands thou thou- 8 sands of f r tors as far as the i 1 reach eye can car J It is V Qt 1 beachs beach's I f famous a m o a u s s. automobile speedway speed speed- f. f way the mile 12 4 strip that has pro pro- pro a succession of oC land records that thal would have been deemed impossible irn im ira ira-f possible a decade l ago It is a calm afternoon February Campbell tary ar ary 5 1930 1930 and there is a buzz of ex ex- cx as the spectators many with I binoculars rivet their attention on a I point far up the beach where the thin strip of sand meets the sky Comes a low moan swiftly rising in volume and a spot appears on the horizon The moan becomes a 1 roar as the object sweeps closer and shapes itself for an instant be before Core hurtling past a blur of blue Almost before heads can ean be turn turned cd the roaring blur has faded into the distance In a short time there comes back the announcement that Captain Malcolm Malcohn Mal Mal- colm cohn Campbell has shot his Bluebird over the measured mile course at a speed o of miles an hour for a anew anew 1 new record For several months evor ever since he heard his record was bein being endangered endangered by the Australian Wizard Smith Sir Malcolm has had a staff of engineers at work on the Bluebird Increasing its horsepower and reducing ing inS wind resistance SPEED IN CENTER Four to six miles are required for the Bluebird to reach its maximum speed and the same distance to bring it H to a 1 halt haiL The measured mile is In the center Last year yeal when he se set the present record Sir Malcolm s aid raid he did not attain his greatest I speed until almost at the end of or the measured mile The Thc timing is done by stretching a n steel wire at the be beginning and at the end of the record mile Both wires are arc connected with an electric chronometer which registers the im im- imI I pact poet of the tires to the hundredth part of oC a second |