WON’T GIVE IN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 7

WON’T GIVE IN.

CAMPBELL SEEKS RECORD. » “I’ve tried to persuade him not to make his attempt, but. once he has made up his mind nothing will move him. He says that he travelled to South Africa for that purpose, and that he means to have a try whatever happens.” This statement was made in London early this month by Mrs Campbell, wife of Captain Malcolm ’ Campbell, the noted speed motorist, on her arrival there with her children. She left later for South Africa to watch her husband make an attempt’ at Verneuk Pan on the world’s record of 231.36246 m.p.h. made by Major H. O. D. Segrave at Daytona (Florida). Mrs Campbell says that her husband had fearful luck in his aeroplane accident in February. Although he made light of it, it was far more serious than was reported, she said. Part of his nose was cut off, and had to be sewn on without an anaesthetic. His top teeth were knocked out and his mouth badly cut. “But his nerve is unshaken,” she added. “I am only that he may not be fit when he makes the attempt which will probably be towards the end of April.