SPEED ON LAND
ATTEMPT ON WORLD’S RECORD. MR KAYE DON’S NEW CAR. GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (British Official Wireless). Received February 22, 11 a.m. RIiGBY, Feb. 2.1. Mr Kaye Don’s 4000 horsepower car Silver Bullet to-day left the experimental shops of a motor works at \Volverhampton, where she was constructed with the greatest secrecy. Mr Kaye Don, in an interview, expressed the greatest confidence that at Daytona he would beat the world’s land speed record held by Sir Henry Segrave. He described the car as the greatest engineering feat ever put on wheels. He hoped to make his attempt between March 15 and March 21. The Silver Bullet is being taken by road to Southampton during the weekend. and will be transferred to the top deck of the Berengaria for passage across the Atlantic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 74, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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138SPEED ON LAND Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 74, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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