SPEED RECORDS
LAND, SEA. Ab AIR BRITAIN HOLDS ALL THREE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, February 25. (Received February 26, at 11.30 a.m.) In addition to breaking the record for the one mile Sir Malcolm Campbell’s performance establishes a new record for the one kilometre and five kilometres, Britain holds all official speed records for land, sea, and air. These records were secured in tho air by Flight-lieutenant Stainforth at 407.5 miles per hour, and on water by Kaye Don at 110.28 miles per hour. The claim by the American, Gar Wood, to have attained a water speed of 111.712 miles per hour has not been officially recognised. The records for motor cycling speed, both on the track and on the road, are also held by English riders, and the fastest railroad speed goes to the credit of the Great Western Railway’s Cheltenham flyer, which was driven by Engine-driver Stone at 81.2 miles per hour.
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Evening Star, Issue 21037, 26 February 1932, Page 9
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157SPEED RECORDS Evening Star, Issue 21037, 26 February 1932, Page 9
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