SPEED ON LAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23150, 23 September 1938, Page 12

SPEED ON LAND

RECORD ATTEMPT FAILS THUNDERBOLT CAR DAMAGED FURTHER EFFORTS ABANDONED (Received September 22, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 21 The car Thunderbolt in which the British racing motorist Captain G. E. T. Eyston established the world land speed record of 357.5 miles an hour last week was damaged in another attempt on the record at Bonneville salt flats, Utah. As a result Captain Eyston will he unable to make any more attempts on the record until next year. The covering on two of the rear wheels fouled while the Thunderbolt was travelling at a speed which Captain Eysfon believed to be in excess of 360 miles an hour. The car, however, was timed at a speed of 349.85 miles an hour on the official mile course, over which it lurched on its metal shell like a bobsled. NEW BOAT BUILDING SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL HOPES OF BEATING RECORD (Received September 22, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept, 22 Sir Malcolm Campbell announced today that he is building a new Bluebird motor-boat with which he hoped to beat his own world water speed record next year. • Sir Malcolm established his record on Lake Hollwill (Switzerland) last week, when he averaged 131.41 miles an hour.