NEW LAND RECORD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 125, 8 March 1935, Page 5

NEW LAND RECORD

OVER 276 MILES. SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL'S CAR. MAXIMUM SPEED OF 281 MILES. FAVOURABLE WIND ASSISTS. - FEAT AT DAYTON A BEACH. ''./■ CUnited Press Association— Copyright) i (Received! This Day, 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORE, March /. At Daytona Beach (Florida) Sirjialcolm Campbell established a new Jand record- of 276.816 miles an hour. • On the south-bound run, Sir Malcolm reached 272.727 miles an hour, and on tho return trip, with a favourable wind, 281.030 miles. Sir Malcolm Campbell first gained the land speed record in 1929, with a speed of 231,36226 miles an hour at Daytona Beach. The late Sir Henrj Segrave's previous record ot Momo mites an hour had been established in 1929 in the Golden Arrow. Sir Malcolm made another attempt on bis own record in February, 1931, and his successful run of 240.736 miles an hour was recognised by the bestowal ot a kniehthood upon nim when he returned to England. February, 1932, saw him back at Daytona, where he raised the speed of the record to 253.968 miles an hour in Blue Bird, on his first run reaching a speed of 265 miles an hour. Not content with this, he was back on the beach the following day, but his average for the mile of 251.748 miles an' hour was not quite high enough. At the same time, he averaged 242.70 l miles an hour for five miles, bettering by "31.26 miles an hour his former record for this distance made in South Africa. Toward the end of 1932 he announced that 300 miles an hour was to be his ambition when he made the next attempt, and Blue Bird had a Rolls Royce engine of 2350 horse-power installed, similar to those used for Schneider Trophy seaplanes. The attempt was made in February, 1933, and although conditions - were not of the best, an average speed of 272:108 miles an hour was attained. On the first run Sir Malcolm's instruments indicated that the car was travelling at 320 miles an hour when he entered the measured mile. The .official timing was 273.556 miles an hour for this run, and the difference was accounted for by tiro slippage. At the same time, Sir Malcolm set up a record of 272.108 miles ■ an hour for one kilometre.