LAND SPEED RECORD
♦ HOLDER'S TRIBUTE TO AMERICANS (sarnsß official wibblesb.) (Received September. 20, 8 p.m.) RUGBY, September 19. Sir Malcolm Campbell, who at the Utah Salt Flats on September 3 broke the world's land speed record, arrived at Southampton in the liner Majestic, and was welcomed by the Mayor. The American Ambassador in London (Mr Robert W. Bingham) who travelled on the same boat, joined in the ceremony, and paid a warm tribute to Sir
Malcolm Campbell, whose achievement, he said, was respected and admired in the United States. In reply Sir Malcolm Campbell expressed his thanks for the perfect organisation and friendly help provided by the Americans, and described the record as an "AngloAmerican achievement because we had to go to America to find a suitable cburse."
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21584, 21 September 1935, Page 15
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