BRITISH SPEEDBOAT
ATTACK ON WORLD RECORD LONDON, May 25. Secretly built from designs by Mr Edward Spurr, an engineer, who was in collaboration with Lawrence of Arabia, a 16 feet speedboat, christened Empire Day, is expected to achieve a speed of 90 miles an hour. The boat will be used in an attack on the Italian world record of 70 miles an hour on Lake Windemere within three weeks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23511, 27 May 1938, Page 9
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