Day signer-builder Don Harki ness leads wheel visit
Smith bettered the world ten mile record during the visit, but the attempt was disallowed due to old fashioned timing apparatus.
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Don Harkiness
Smith
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Sydney Referee
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 14, 1931
Page
1
Australian Speed Ace Seeks 300 MPH on Ninety Mile Beach
Norman Smith aims to crush the world speed record at Ninety Mile Beach New Zealand with the Stewart Special. The push follows trials at Anzac Beach and Muriwai as planners map a 16 mile straight, wide beach course and rally support from the Auckland Automobilia Association and Colonel Allen Bell.
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Auckland Automobilia Association
Allen Bell
Sydney
Ninety Mile Beach
Smith
Muriwai
Smith—arip
Stewart
Olelahaw
Pail
Ninety Mile Beach Proved Hard as Concrete by Test Run
Norman Smith described a four mile beach trial with the Anzac weight tester on Ninety Mile Beach showing the surface behaved like concrete. The device rested with little impression on the sand, convincing motorists of its solidity. The speed course spans about 10 miles and has been surveyed by three groups, with a government survey planned next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Smith
Anzac
Pendino Sands
Wales
Verneuk Pan
South Africa
Daytona
Speed Kings
Zea
Smith
Auckland Automobile Association
New Zealand
N.Z
Beach planning task assigned to Auckland officials in London note
Government in London signals interest with a promising sign as F W Fulbert Engineer in Chief Public Works and H Butcher Auckland Automobile Association undertake duties. Butcher already familiar with the beach, having been there earlier.
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London
F. W. Fulbert
Public Works Department
H. Butcher
Auckland Automobile Association
Butcher
Real Boosters For Ninety Mile Beach
Auckland Automobile Association mounts a determined drive to elevate Ninety Mile Beach on the world speed map. To aid Norman Smith in his Segrave mile bid, the association provides timekeepers and officials, handles transport, conducts surveys, sent a delegate overseas to learn governing body timing rules, and has ordered timing gear costing 500 pounds. Smith debuts and, while abroad, arranged electrical timing supply approved by the international speed body.
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Auckland Automobile Association
Ninety Mile Beach
Norman Smith
Segrave
Speed
Smith
Speed course aims for 100 mph sprint on Ninety Mile Beach
The article describes a tide dependent speed course on Ninety Mile Beach with a width from 400 to 1000 feet. Smith endorses the plan for the 100 mph sprint, notes the distance is ample, and contrasts it with Anzac’s 164 mph. He also mentions Ninety Mile Beach as a future Motordom lead and shares fishing anecdotes about catching snapper up to 27 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ife
Segrave
Smith
Isaak Walton
Ol ‘Anzac
Dinkam
March Will Tell On Ninety Mile Beach Fisher Tale
March will reveal more about Ninety Mile Beach and related voyages. If the speed venture succeeds, New Zealand could gain its greatest world boost since Zane Gray wrote Big Fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninety Mile
New Zealand
Zane Gray
No Admittance to Secret Schneider Trophy Engine
The excerpt warns that Norman Smith and Don Hark ness will not bear fault if unauthorized persons glimpse the Stewart Special engine. The driver and designer-builder assured the British Government the aero engine lent for the Schneider Trophy will be kept secret with guards, police surveillance, and seven day a week work including night shifts to deter intruders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Smith
Don Harkness
What Do You Know About Sport
A quirky quiz item from The Referee asks readers to answer weekly questions. It lists trivia prompts such as past Challenge Stakes winners entering this year’s race, Victorian bats, a player with two continents in all matches against Queensland, and whether any English team in a Test series against Australia crossed 5000 innings runs three times in Australia. It also seeks details on the first Australian champion to travel to England to face the English sculling champion, the first man to swim the English Channel, and the native-born West Indian who became a major name in Australian sport.
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