Show ab jenkins will make runs on bonneville I 1 flats ab jenkins will follow by three biays john cobb s speed tests on bonneville salt flats with other tests at high speed august 18 it was announced by gus P back man president of the bonneville speedway and director of the utah centennial celebration jenkins will make his tests over one or more of the circular tracks laid out on the 1000 square mile bonneville salt flats in tooele thoele and box elder counties T this his great na tural racing course has been the site for all the unlimited world s land speed records since 1934 the veteran utah dievers s new car is 33 inches high and weighs only 1900 pounds compared to the six foot high 2 ton mormon me teor beor jenkins drove in 1940 the motor has a piston displacement of only cubic inches from which it turns up horsepower this compares to an average ger car motor of cubic inch displacement developing only horsepower secret of th the e tremendous effice ency of the car is the use of water injection to increase thermal effice ency and horsepower the motor turns u up p revolutions per mm min ute at peak power with the super charger turning at 38 r p in designer and builder of the car Is bud winfield of kacanda calif veteran in maker aker of speed cars boats and motorcycles both jenkins and cobb runs are being sponsored as a means of testing lubricants and fuels under extraordinary stresses |