NEW WATER SPEED RECORD SET.—Lee Taylor, in his jet-boat Hustler, breaking Donald Campbell’s water-speed record at Lake Guntersville, Alabama, on Friday. Taylor averaged 285.2 m.p.h. for two runs over the mile course. Campbell set the previous record of 276.33 m.p.h. in Australia in 1964. —Photograph by cable.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31411, 3 July 1967, Page 22
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47NEW WATER SPEED RECORD SET.—Lee Taylor, in his jet-boat Hustler, breaking Donald Campbell’s water-speed record at Lake Guntersville, Alabama, on Friday. Taylor averaged 285.2 m.p.h. for two runs over the mile course. Campbell set the previous record of 276.33 m.p.h. in Australia in 1964. —Photograph by cable. Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31411, 3 July 1967, Page 22
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