MOTOR SPEED RECORD
NEW FIGURES ESTABLISHED. (Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyngnt ( NEW YORK, February 19 (Received Feb. 20, at 7.5 p.m.) At Daytona Beach, Florida, Captain Campbell established a new world’s speed record, driving a Bluebird 206.95 miles iii an hour, assisted by a strong wind. The tachometer registered 220 miles an hour at one time, but the roughness of the heath slowed the pace. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
TERRIFIC SPEED ATTAINED. NEW YORK, February lit. (Received Feb. 20, at 9.30 p.m.) Malcolm Campbell’s actual average in the Napier Bluebird Special was 200.95002 miles au hour. The first mile took 16.7Gsec, or at the rate of 214 mile's an hour, and the second mile, against the wind, IS.oscc, or at the rate of 199.6(5722 miles an hour. The former record was 203.79 miles. — A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20338, 21 February 1928, Page 9
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