OVER 276 MILES HOURLY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 7

OVER 276 MILES HOURLY

Sir Malcolm Campbell Breaks Own Record at Daytona BLUEBIRD’S PERFORMANCE PREVIOUS BEST 270 M.P.H. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received noon to-day. DAYTONA BEACH. March' 7. Sir Malcolm Campbell established! a new world land speed record <?f 276.516 miles an hour in the new Bluebird, breaking liis own previous record of 270 miles an hour.

On the southbound run Sir Malcolm reached 272.727 miles an hour. The return trip was made Avfth a favourable wind.

Sir Malcolm Campbell has had an adventurous career. Besides being a world-famed speed and racing motorist he has been a treasure hunter. He

fiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiimiMiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiisiKiiimiimiimiia once went in search of the supposed £12,000,000 treasure hidden on Cocos Island off the coast of South. America. He also went with Sir Alan Cobham, the famous aviator, on a goldhunting expedition in the Kalihari Desert. His biographer, Mr J. Wentworth Day, says of him: “When the transition from the Horse Age to the Motor Age is analysed in future history, Campbell’s name will stand with that of Stephenson. Consider bis achievements. He has thrown the inheritance of a brilliant brain, the creation of a lucrative business, the possession of a large fortune, and the risk of his own life completely and without hope of personal gain into the building designing, and driving of motor-cars which have set up more world’s land speed records than have ever stood to the credit of any one man before.” As a youth he was fined thirty shillings in Bromley Police Court for riding a bicycle at what the magistrate described as a totally unnecessary speed of 27 miles per hour. “We hope this will be a lesson to you not to travel so fast in future,” added the magistrate. Afterwards Sir Malcolm took up track bicycle racing in Germany. That was the beginning of his career of speed.