NEW SPEED RECORD
FEAT OVER CLOSED CIRCUIT Rec. 8 p.rn. LONDON. Feb. 27. A Vickers Armstrong jet fighter “attacker”- broke''the world record for a 100 . kilometre (62 miles) closed circuit with a speed of 560-634 miles an hour. The Gloster Meteor held, the previous record at 542.9 miles an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26707, 28 February 1948, Page 7
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