NEW SPEED RECORD.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL’S SUCCESS.
BLUEBIRD 11. REACHES NEARLY 254 MILES PER HOUR.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, Peh. 24. A message from Daytona Beach states that Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the land speed rejcord by reaching 253,968 miles per hour.
OWN RECORD BROKEN BY 8,235 M.P.H.
(Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 24,
Driving the Bluebird 11. at Daytona Beach, Campbell exceeded his old record by 8.235 miles per hour.
The southward run over the official mile was done in 13.465ec., and the northward run in 14.895ec. There was considerable confuse ion after the first run. Campbell did not appear to be travelling at record speed and the officials delayed announneing the speed until some time after he had completed the second run. They checked and re-checked the speeds, then announced that the time of the first run was coirrect and that Campbell had set a new record.
The English driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in making the previous record of 245.733 m.p.h., in the Bluebird, beat the record established by the l&te Major Segrave, of 231.36 m.p.h., in the Golden Arrow, also on Daytona Beach. * ‘Wizard” Smith, who is in New Zealand with the Ered H. Stewart Enterprise, has not yet found the NinetyMile Beach in a suitable condition for attempting a new record on the flying mile; but on January 26th he broke the 10-mile record (held by Marehand at 137.21 m.p.h.) with an average speed of 164.084 miles per. hour. The following table reveals how the world’s land speed record has been steadily increased during the past few years:— m.p.h.
1925 (July)—Malcolm Campbell (Sunbeam) 150.760 1926 (April) —Parry Thomas (Thomas Special) . . . 168.075 1927 (February) Malcolm ' ’Campbell (Napier Special) . . .. 174.223 1927 (March) Major H. O. D. Segrave (Sunbeam) 203.790 1928 (February) • Campbell (Napier Spec.) 20G.956 192 S (April) Kay iieeeh (White Triplex) 207.502 1929 (March) —Major Segrave (Irving-Xapier) 231.362 1931 (February) Malcolm . Campbell (Napier Spec.) 245.7
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 February 1932, Page 5
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