LAND-SPEED ATTEMPT
New Route Possible (NX. Press Atra.-Copyright I ADELAIDE, April 15. A 10-ton grader ha* broken through the salt crust and settled into heavy mud at the northern end of the runway being prepared for Donald Campbell's Bluebird at Lake Eyre, in the north of South Australia.
The mishap is regarded a* possibly the worst of a series of setbacks for Campbell, who will try to establish a new world land-speed record there in May or June.
Campbell was hoping to begin trial runs next Sunday, for his attemept on the world land speed record of 394.2 miles an hour. Before the grader bogged down yesterday afternoon, the project
had been under the threat of the lake flooding. “It appears the run will now need to be re-routed,” Campbell said today. “The salt is not only thin but very wet and soft.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30107, 16 April 1963, Page 13
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