SPEED RECORDS GO.
ENGLISH OAR AT SALT LAKE. (Hecalved 9.30 a.m.) SALT LAKE CITY, November 4. The English motor racing driver, Captain G. K. T. Eyston, broke the world motor speed record for 12 hours by driving at Bonneville, Salt Flats, Utah, at an average of 103.08 miles an hour. He also broke the 3000 kilometres record at an average of 103.48 miles an hour, and at present ia unofficially attacking the 2000 miles record, with an average of 103.7 miles an hour. Captain Eyston broke in all 12 records.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 7
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