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Show Bluebird Bound for U. S. Campbell Hopes to Set New Speed Record Stranger Car Than Ever thing. And she's no spring chicken, either, having been with Sir Malcolm since 1924. Of course, her face has been lifted several times. So often, in fact, that the front axle and steering steer-ing wheel are her only original parts. Bluebird's pretty hefty, loo, her 27 feet weighing (bout four and one-half one-half tons. (Ed. note This thing is getting pretty Involved. From here on we'll Just forget Bluebird's a gal and treat her like an automobile. Okay?) When Campbell atreaked 233.B mile an hour last year Bluebird was propelled by a 1400 hone power motor. mo-tor. Dissatisfied with this speed. Campbell yanked out the 1400 horse power business and replaced It with a "hush-hush" don't ask us what that Is) motor, developing about 1600 horse power. The new engine is of the special Rolls-Royce type which gained the world's air speed record in the British Schneider trophy machine ma-chine last year and waa lent to Campbell Camp-bell by the British air ministry. Bluebird, a wicked looking baby from the start, will look even more By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Cerreeaeadeni NEW YORK, Jan. It (UP) Somewhere Some-where out on the broad Atlantic, traveling trav-eling at a speed which must bore her to death, is Bluebird, the racing car in which that top man among the daredevils. Sir Malcolm Campbell, hopes to establish a new world's speed msrk next month. - Bluebird, looking even more like something of the other world then she did last year, was swung aboard the Berengaria Tuesday. Sir Malcolm, Mal-colm, busy with his will perhaps, will follow in a week or so. Bluebird may not know It, but she Is going to work hard down there by Ithe sad aea waves of Daytona this year. For her master, whose chief I ambition in life la to travel 300 miles an hour (that mere five miles a minute, one mile every twelve seconds) sec-onds) on land, saya he plana to do Just that FACE LIFTED OFTEN What sort of gal Is this Bluebird, snyway? Well, she's fast for one sinister this year. The provision of sn air intake to the carburetor, which sticks out like a gun in front gives Bluebird the appearance of an armored tank. X The tail of the machine has been raised and the ground clearance lowered low-ered since last year, and a special type of multiple disc clutch has been used to take the extra power given off by the engine. WILL USE BALLAST When Bluebird heads down the measured course, her motors rosring full blast huge lead weights will be strapped to her side. Engineers advised ad-vised the ballast, believing that the car, despite its weight would take olf Ilka an airplane at 300 miles an hour. The foot accelerator Is much larger than is found in the usual racing car. The -reason for this is that if Campbell's Camp-bell's foot slipped off the pedal while going full tilt the sudden decrease in speed would send the car into a series of giant somersaults. One more little item and we're through. Bluebird's tires have only the thinnest stretch of rubber over the cord. Experiment proved that the tires are cooler at 300 miles per hour than they are when the car is "loafing" along at 250 m. p. h. |