Malcolm, I love the lines---I look forward to seeing it in person with my
camera, in inspection with the skin off----My brother used to sell JCB's-----
>
> From: "MPittwood@compuserve.com" <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
> Date: 2006/04/25 Tue PM 02:12:00 CDT
> To: Land Speed List <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: JCB Dieselmax
>
> I wonder why some US racers become troubled by a speed car that happens to
> carry the name of an engineering company - in this case JCB, on its flanks.
> This so called "corporate" organisation builds back hoe diggers and such
> other fine implements for industrial use as the 'Fastrack', And it builds
> diesel engines too. It is not in the racing or speed business.
>
> The Ricardo people might be compared to a Dave D or a Mike, as they are all
> in the 'tune up' business to maximise the power output from something some
> one else has produced. The teams aerodynamacist is a retired former rocket
> designer ............. now don't we have such a person in this group based
> in the USA? And their consultant is the former outright land speed record
> who first used the Black Rock desert, having been flooded off the salt.
> The driver may be a bit special as he tackled rear wheel steering and the
> sound barrier and came out with a significant record.
>
> All US racers should just welcome a British team who wants to show its
> paces on the Bonneville Salt Flats .............. rather than in South
> Africa or Australia or Tunisia or Bolivia or Dubai or indeed any other
> location in the world (or indeed a highway in Nevada).
>
> Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England
>
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