LAND SPEED RECORD
POWERFUL CAR BUILT FOR KAYE DON. CAMPBELL TO TRY AGAIN. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, Dec. 2. Motor-racing experts are to make a careful, inspection of the Pcndino Sands, Carmarthenshire, to consider the possibility of adapting them to motor record-breaking conditions. Although the sands extend for seven miles, and are in certain conditions of the wind and tide suitable for highspeed car attempts, there is a stream at one end of the run which is considered a dangerous obstacle. The problem is whether this obstruction can bo overcome to give a long enough course. An inspection is being undertaken mainly at the instaneo of the Sunbeam Motor Company, which has constructed a 4000 horse-power Silver Bullet car, in which Kaye Don hopes to improve on the world record of 231 miles an hour established by Sir Henry Seagrave on his 1000 horsepower Irving Napier Golden Arrow car at Daytona, America. Captain Malcolm Campbell also has ambitions to establish a fresh record with a 1300 horso-power Blue Bird, designed by himself and will uso the Pendino Sand* if they can be made suitable.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 300, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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184LAND SPEED RECORD Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 300, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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