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368 ILLUSTRATED WORLD
complete car is stream line, air resistance
cut down to the last possible pound, even
the axles being blade shape with the thin
edge toward the front. The exhaust
pipe runs
through an
insulated
passage in
the body of
the car and
opens at the
very tail, so
not one object
breaks
the smooth
of the submarine car.
Double steering arms are used instead
of only one, so the bad luck of the auto
driver may break either arm or the tierod
on the wheels, and the car still will
hold the course.
tends to thrust the head of the driver
backward as if some strong person were
pushing it back with his hand, and when
it does give back a little, the driver can
hardly straighten up again.
The great feature is the added
security for the driver and mechanic.
The rate at which a car rolls over
doesn't put the weight of the machine
on the top of the body; in fact
many a car has gone over and over
without even wrecking the wheel or
seats. The shape of this body will
impel the car to go on over and not
stop with the wheels the wrong way up.
In fact, it is expected that the final roll
will land the car on its wheels again.
As before hinted, Barney has no intention
to make his car roll over every time
it passes the grandstand merely to let
• The radiator is as much V-shape as is the crowd feel that it is getting its fifty
possible to make it and still give cooling cents worth, nor will his life be a bit
surface, and there isn't a line on the car better risk if he insists on cutting down
that hasn't been studied and tapered down trees or knocking over brick houses with
to prevent air resistance from cutting his car. But, with the double steering
down speed. Consider the fact that a gear, the roll-over body, the light weight
speed of 180 miles an hour means facing of the car, and his experience and daring,
the same air pressure that one would get the old driver will have even Resta and
from a gale blowing at the same speed Aiken glancing fearfully over their
with the car motionless. Oldfield says shoulders as the gray submarine sneaks
that at 120 miles an hour the air pressure up beside them.