MOTOR SPEED RECORD

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27435, 23 August 1954, Page 8

MOTOR SPEED RECORD

BRITISH DRIVER’S TIME FOR MILE (NJS. Press Association— CopurU/M) BONNEVILLE FLATS Healey, ■ own modified Austin Healey 100 snorts worid y a hour 8 mile Wlth a speed of 190 - 8 mile, an The former record, held bv a Jasuar was 178.383 miles an hour y * ™«uar, Mr drove the light blue snorts m 5 <, 1?24* to compensate for the’altiacrosa the salt flats here under perfect weather conditions. b J oke . X 1 * international Class D f S r fiv ® khometres with a speed of iT 9 ’ 63 an J* our - The previous record was miles an hour. American time b B U? Association officials recorded . Mr Healey, wearing special dark goggles th^bSSv 0 * Ah g S re < h * d mo *fled ‘ * r,°s y ol ! he Austin-Healey to include m?driv«’ n seM bUbb,e 40 Pr °‘ eCt ,n The Sll-year-old designer tested the team c . rd " br s ald ß? c S r ’ y este rday and decided to go for the flying mile record towZr'e P d' r,eC ‘ W “ ther The MG Special of Captain George E. T. which sped across the White Salt here on Tuesday, created 17 records during its 12-hour run. At *he 12-hour run a new r record of 1Z0.87 miles an hour had been set , The small car travelled 1480 miles during the day and also set a new international 12-hour record of 120.74 miles an hour. The old mark was 105.48 mIIPS an hour