WINTON GASOLINE RACING AUTOMOBILE, 1 903 

 Gift of the Winton Engine Co. in 1929 (USNM 309603) 



This car (fig. 76), called "Bullet No. 2," and one of the 

 first automobiles to use an 8-cylinder, in-line engine, was 

 the third racing car constructed by Alexander Winton. It 

 was built for the fourth Gordon Bennett road race, held in 

 Ireland in 1903 (fig. 77), and was driven in that race by 

 Winton until a minor mechanical failure forced it to with- 

 draw. Others, including JLarl Kiser and Barney Oldfield 

 (fig. 78), drove the car in various contests in the United 

 States, Oldfield covering a mile in 43 seconds at Daytona 

 Beach, Fla., on January 28, 1904. This is equivalent to 

 83.7 miles an hour, very close to the world's speed record 

 at that time. 



The power plant consists of two 4-cylinder, in-line engines 

 bolted together to form a straight-eight with the cylinders 

 lying in a horizontal plane. The bore and stroke are 5V4 



Figure 76. — Alexander Winton in the Winton "Bullet No. 2." 



