Breaking the Record on Ninety-Mile Beach
A garage is to be built at Hukatere to accommodate Mr. Norman Smith’s great racing car, the Fred. H. Stewart Special, with which he hopes to attain a new world record for land speed on the Ninety Mile beach in December. It was planned to erect a permanent building of concrete in the confident expectation that Ninety Mile beach will become and remain one of the world’s high speed tracks, but the requisite funds are not available, so a humbler iron structure with a concrete floor is to be built. The elaborate electric timing apparatus has been carefully tested in Auckland, so it now needs only good weather conditions always an uncertain factor—to secure a great race and an attack on the present world’s record under most favourable circumstances.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 3, 23 October 1931, Page 1
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135Breaking the Record on Ninety-Mile Beach Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 3, 23 October 1931, Page 1
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