Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British hopes pan out, the low-pitched roar of auto traffic may turn to a thin, high whine. Last week at Silverstone race track, Warwickshire, the Rover Co. of Birmingham showed off a gas-turbine sport coupé. Its unofficial name: the Whizzard...
Made out of a stock-model Rover, the Whizzard has three chrome-decorated air intakes in its sides just ahead of the rear fenders. The engine, placed behind the driver's seat, has two exhaust vents. The car, which looks much like an ordinary car on the outside, is not jet-propelled. Its fuel burns in two combustion chambers, producing a gas stream that spins a high-speed turbine. The gas escapes upward at rather low speed while the turbine turns the car's rear wheels through reduction gears and a conventional rear...
...public was not allowed to see the engine. Outside experts guessed that the experimental Whizzard gets from five to seven miles on a gallon of kerosene. Rover Co. engineers hope that the mileage can be doubled by a "heat-exchanger" now under development. They think that the new engine will be used first on trucks and long-distance buses. Its chief advantages are simplicity, cheap fuel and low weight per h.p. Its high idling speed will be a serious disadvantage in stop-and-start traffic...
...demonstration of the Whizzard caused much excitement in gas-turbine-minded Britain. Other British motor manufacturers are hard at work on turbines. The Rover engineers, first to get the turbo-car completed, believe they are at least a year ahead of U.S. rivals...
...Attila the Hun. Born in Port-of-Spain 58 years ago of a Venezuelan father and a West Indian mother, he claims, to have been singing calypso songs for half a century-"long before they took it out of the backyard slums and put it on Frederick Street." His Rover Calypso Tent, made of sheet iron and boards on Frederick Street, the town's main street, is the island's calypso center...