Piute County News | 1947-10-24 | Page 3 | Tiny Car, Quarter Ounce, Speeds 131 Miles an Hour

tiny car quarter ounce speeds miles an hour pittsburgh A model automobile that weighs only a qua quarter of an ounce and attains a speed of miles an hour in about a second has been constructed ted by C M lear an engineer lor for westinghouse electric corporation at east pittsburgh the diminutive machine does not use gasoline ga eoline he said laid it derive its power from a metal capsule of carbon dioxide similar to that used in it a siphon bottle the vehicle is a racing machine and competes at speed trials with other models built on lines over a 60 00 ot race track