Talk:Railton Special

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Sources differ as to wether superchargers were used

• [1] says they were
• Brrokands Society that they were not.

The Napier Railton did not, the Railton Special did. I'll improve the articles . PeterGrecian 11:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Merge

Both articles are about the same thing. The only question seems to be which remains as the main article. -De Facto 11:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Two Different Cars

The oldest is at Brooklands, built in 1933 which Brooklands call Napier-Railton but sometimes Napier Railton and had a single Napier Lion and did 160 mph.

• Brooklands
• Brooklands discription

The other is in Birmingham Museum of Science and Discovery, built in 1938, did 400 mph and it's keepers call it Railton Mobil Special

The articles about Birmingham Museum of Science and Discovery are confused because it calls it's self by several names including Thinktank. It would be good to fix them.

• Thinktank press release, Railton Mobil Special

The Mobil is often dropped because it's just a sponsors name.

Railton Special    = 400 mph in Birmingham
Napier Railton     = 160 mph in Brooklands

It would be a great to rename Railton Special as Railton Mobil Special with redirects.PeterGrecian 14:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

The 1939 version was sponsored by Gilmore Oil, and the car had the Gilmore Lion and crossed American and British flags painted on the nose. Gilmore's slogan was "Roar with Gilmore" and the company was heavily involved with racing and speed trials. It went out of business after World War II. See www.jitterbuzz.com/indwhl.html#cobb for more details and photos

Do it! See Help:Moving a page if you're not sure how. - De Facto 18:09, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Will do! PeterGrecian 11:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

"Mobil" should not be dropped, because it's a different car (a rebuild of an earlier car). The Railton Special / Railton Mobil Special were separated by 9 years, World War 2, and 50 mph. Andy Dingley (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 17:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

speed record

Instead of hair splitting about names, can't the British take pride in that this car remains the fastest piston engine car of all time.

After the Cobb record breaking run it was the jet and rocket cars that then had to be used to take the land speed record. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AT Kunene (talk • contribs) 13:39, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

America took the jet record, then America took the piston record with Goldenrod. The days of Malcolm Campbell are over. MidAtlanticRidgeback (talk) 20:08, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Innovations

I think it would be worthwhile to mention the engine ice cooling system. Using the latent heat of the ice avoided the need for conventional radiators that add drag. This idea was later copied by the record breaking JCB Dieselmax. Oliver Sedlacek (talk) 22:46, 14 March 2019 (UTC) Oliver Sedlacek