TO BEAT MALCOLM CAMPBELL
No smoking—no drinking and a 10mile walk every day for the next 32 months.
This is the self-imposed training schedule which Captain George Eyston is adopting in order to prepare for an attempt to beat the world’s land speed record of 301 miles an hour.
The details of the car he will use are being kept a close secret because it is known that both Germany and America are determined to wrest this record, set up by Sir Malcolm Campbell, from Britain.
Captain Eyston, however, disclosed that he is going to wear an asbestos suit.
“ I have had several unpleasant experiences of being in racing cars which have caught fire, he said, “but with this suit on I was drenched in petrol and set on fire. Yet my clothes underneath were not even scorched.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23081, 6 January 1937, Page 9
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138TO BEAT MALCOLM CAMPBELL Otago Daily Times, Issue 23081, 6 January 1937, Page 9
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