LAND SPEED RECORD
CAMPBELL ’ S SUCCESS.
r Tjiighsh driver, Sir Malcolm (amphell m making the previous m’ , d ‘/ f 1, 2^°-\ 33 rn.p.h., in the Bluebird heat the record establishi.L Ijy the fate Major Segrave, of 231.36 rn.p.h., in the Golden Arrow, also on Daytona Beach. “Wizard” who is in New Zealand with the I'red H. Stewart Enterprise has not yet found the Ninety-Mile Beach m a suitable condition for attempting a new record on the fly-brot-l 111 !? 5 h io Jauuar y 26th Le bioke the 10-nnle record (held by March and at 137.21 m.p.h.) with an hoin rtK ° Speed ° f 164 - OS4 miles per Ihe following table reveals how tne world s land speed record lias been steadily increased during the past few years: 1925 (July): Malcolm Camp- “ T* l '- hell (Sunbeam) ... . iso ren 1926 (April, : Parry Thomas 6 ° lO‘r ( vT Special) 168.075 19 2t (February): Malcolm Campbell (Napier Special) 17 , 9 .,0 1927 (March.) : Major H. 6. lQ9Q D Vy ß t Srave > (Sunbeam) 203.790 1 928 (I ebruary) : Malcolm Campbell (Napier Spec--IS2S : Ray Keee’h 2U6 ' 9,je 190 l (February): Malcolm Campbell (Napier Spec lal > 245.7
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11985, 27 February 1932, Page 2
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