90 Mile Beach, Northern New Zealand, Is A Footing Road
That must suffer unique... how many countries allow whatever motorist to hit on a beach... for 1 thing, thence how many procedure the beach like a road, not a menage to holiday or learn to a greater extent than or less Lord's Day inward add-on to surf?
This beach is officially a highway, but is truly solely suitable for 4WD vehicles inward add-on to is safe to hit solely at specific times of the tides. Rental companies won’t allow their cars on the sand, to a greater extent than oftentimes than not for safety reasons.
In 1932 the beach was used every fleck the track for to a greater extent than or less of the earliest airmail services between Commonwealth of Commonwealth of Australia inward add-on to New Zealand. It is sometimes used every fleck an choice route to State Highway 1 due north of Kaitaia.
There is also a WW2 world forces tank under the sand roughly Where Smiths base of operations of operations was, which was lost when doing to a greater extent than or less exercises during the war.
http://www.newzealand.com/int/feature/ninety-mile-beach/
It was also a actually accessible menage for early tell speed racing, only like Ormand inward add-on to Daytona beaches.
Two Australian racing drivers , Norman "Wizard" Smith inward add-on to Don Harkness combined to seat upwards a motorcar to seat on the globe tell speed tape , inward add-on to would slice of work the Ninety mile beach inwards NZ .
The 1st motorcar Wizard Smith took to 90 Mile Beach inwards 1930 was a revised version of Harkness special. It was built on a Cadillac chassis with a Rolls Royce 18.3 ltr 360 bhp V12 Eagle aero engine bought for $80 from air strength surplus.
Renowned motoring journalist Pedr Davis wrote a ii factor history of Wizard Smith, (Wheels, March inward add-on to April 1958)
"The real Story of Wizard Smith " past Steve Simpson, published past Murray majority distributors, Oct 1977 ISBN 85566 356 1
honour that inwards the bottom photograph above, inward add-on to the photograph below, it had a radiator added
Harkness had stuffed a Rolls-Royce Schneider Trophy aero engine inward add-on to also added tail fins inward add-on to the whole affair was painted gold, with the driver inwards his opened upwards cockpit looking like a adult man sitting upwards inwards bed.
it was trying to rhythm out Sir Malcolm Campbell's flying mile record, 246.9 mph, but at that topographic indicate only wasn't enough patience. So much controversy amid the team wasted weeks patch Smith inward add-on to Harkness publicly questioned each other's intelligence, integrity inward add-on to ancestry, inward add-on to the newspapers made hay inward add-on to sold copies
Harkness had designed inward add-on to built the motorcar specifically to respite the globe x mile tape which was held past Seagrave, the motorcar did that at 164.084 mph
After that, the motorcar was scrapped, inward add-on to the Rolls Royce engine was installed inwards the basement of the Bank of New South Wales top dog office, 341 George St., Sydney, powering an emergency generating plant.
When (rarely) fired up, it shook the building, inward add-on to sent fine jets of body of water everywhere from its vast final result of small, inter-cylinder body of water hoses. Sadly, it was scrapped inwards the 1950.
http://www.dlra.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1340&sid=6fb5c58e50e631324f102fac854b32f3&start=15
http://www.gregwapling.com/hotrod/land-speed-racing-australia/land-speed-racing-australia-enterprise.html
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