MOTOR BOAT SPEEDING
KAYE DON’S PROWESS. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, January 23. Kaye Don’s actual speed with the speed boat. Miss England II was 107 miles per hour, which was maintained for one mile. The spray was thrown to a height of twenty feet. The spectators were spellbound when Don turned the craft at a speed of eighty miles an hour, a feat that hitherto was regarded as impossible. FURTHER TRIAL UNNECESSARY. RUGBY, January 23. The proposed further trials of the motor boat Miss England 11. on Lough Neagh have been abandoned as unnecessary, as the corrected figures show she attained yesterday a speed of over 107 miles hourly. Experts to-day examined the vessel, which appears to have withstood the tests satisfactorily. She will be crated and despatched forthwith to Buenos Aires, in preparation for an official attempt by Kaye Don to lower the world’s record.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1931, Page 7
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