WORLD’S SPEED TRACK

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2668, 10 September 1937, Page 5

WORLD’S SPEED TRACK

BONNEVILLE SALT LAKE FLATS.

America’s great desert of salt, where you can still see the bones of oxen and the broken waggons of early pioneers —in places even the wheel tracks—has become a centre for world speed records, eclipsing in importance the once famous Daytona Beach, says a writer in an English exchange. There is in a sense no more lonely spot in the world than the wilderness of Bonneville Salt Flats, where these records are made, 125 miles west of Salt Lake City. A dried-up lake, stretching 100 miles from north to south and between, twenty-five and fifty miles wide, it is an endless expanse of gleaming white salt and mud flats, with no sound but the wind to break the silence, no sign of vegetation, and little animal life.