Show to Seek Speed Record in Auto Built Like Racing Plane I NEW YORK Fob 7 De AP-De- to regain for tor the world speed record for automobiles Major H O. O D D. has arrived in this country with a car patterned after a racing airplane Ile He was the first man ever to drIve an automobile faster than miles mUes an hour but his record was broken last April by Ray Beech Keech an American who drove a machine at miles an hour Although Major has never tried out his new machIne named the Golden Arrow he Is Jent he will be able to make at least miles an hour The race against time wIll tale take place In March on the tho sand at Daytona a where the other races were held The Golden Arrow was designed by Captain T. T S. S Irving who also designed the Sunbeam the car in which Major made an official official of- of speed ot of mlles miles an hour The Golden Arrow Is built on the lines ot of the British plane S S 5 5 which won for Great Britain the th last Schneider cup races with a speed of 2864 mlles miles an hour The streamline effect of tIle the bodY gIves the automobile a minimum ot of wind resistance A flied fixed airplane rudder in the lice rear is expected to keep the machine pointed po straight ahead should it be forced from the ground by the high speed while planes on each side are designed to aid in keeping it on the ground A driving sight enables the car carto carto to be aimed as a large gun Is sight sight- ed A A black line Is dr drawn wn along the hood to where the radiator cap ordinarily would be Here Is a sight through which Major 1 will watch a bright light at the end endot ot of the run The machine Is thirty six inches high It has three gear shifts forward tOT for ward with theoretical speeds ot of 99 and miles an hour r spec spec- It will consume seventy gallons gallons gal gal- lons of special fuel per hour The Tho driver will wUl be strapped in his seat which Is with a quarter quarter- inch steel plate to protect him from wind The car is feet long and 5 feet wide The tires are arc of cord covered only by sixteenth one ot of an aninch aninch inch of rubber and cost coot A party arty of fourteen accompanied Major to this country The expense of the project estimated at was raIsed by a group ot of British sportsmen who have refused refused re- re fused to reveal theIr Identity |