NEW WORLD RECORD
SIR M. CAMPBELL SUCCEEDS
OVER 126 M.P.H.
(British Official Wlreless.l '/Received September 2, lla.ro -) RUGBY, September 1. Sir Malcolm Campbell, who already holds the world's land speed record of 301.1 miles per hour, today established a new speed-boat record on Lake Maggiore in Italy. He completed the outward run over a nautical mile in his speedboat Bluebird, with" a single -Rolls Royce engine of 2350 horsepower, in 28.8 seconds at a speed of 124.72 miles per hour, and the return run in 28.2 seconds at a speed of 127.577 miles per hour. The record, therefore, which supersedes that of Commodore Gar Wood in 1932, is 126.249 miles per hour.
Gar Wood's record was achieved in a boat with four engines of a total of nearly 8000 horsepower. It is stated conditions, this morning were not good aiid that- Sir Malcolm Campbell will make another attempt to improve on the record.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 9
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