BABS, THE SPEED MONSTER. Last week Babs. driven by Mr J. G. Parry Thomas, provided a sensation at Brooklands by travelling at 160 miles an hour on the track built for a maximum speed of 120 miles. Our photograph shows Mr and Mrs Patrick J. Browne (the former the famous "Snowy" Browne, America’s crack racing motorist) on his Lanchester, and Mr J. G. Parry Thomas, one of England's noted racing motorists, on his well-known Babs Ley-land-Thomas (400 h.p. Liberty Aero engine), formerly owned by the late Count Zborowski. Sport and General, photo.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 45
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92BABS, THE SPEED MONSTER. Last week Babs. driven by Mr J. G. Parry Thomas, provided a sensation at Brooklands by travelling at 160 miles an hour on the track built for a maximum speed of 120 miles. Our photograph shows Mr and Mrs Patrick J. Browne (the former the famous "Snowy" Browne, America’s crack racing motorist) on his Lanchester, and Mr J. G. Parry Thomas, one of England's noted racing motorists, on his well-known Babs Leyland-Thomas (400 h.p. Liberty Aero engine), formerly owned by the late Count Zborowski. Sport and General, photo. Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 45
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