RECORDS AT BROOKLANDS.
L. G. Hornsted - beat two world's motor records ajt,Br;b9Klands on December 22r'He^.u^ed^lw^ji|^ 200 h,.jrii Benz with wK|chVyictgrA|R^er^ made th© preyipus "rec6r^s 1909^, but the car lia'd ' Been and improved. " A 'feature tljttt &&&& Horn,ated's performances the' '.nvpre merit* torious' tvas.thafc under fHe.rW^A r , e 6fK latioiis he had to travel i^fco^h direg?^ tions, the figures which counted ; for rev cord pufp6ses m eaph c^ae' being the' mean times. ' Hdrnsted is ' , in©, first^ driver to beat world's recbrfl^ tinder 1 those coriditibn^. The we&tlier was misty, bnt there w^s no wjjkL " Runirig "the horinal wiy of the tifack: he^ covered the Tcijdmetrei m and ' travellin « the TeVerse V *w{iy he d.|a \ '3-19 »cc. ; His mean time was therefore, 30;4085ec,, a 'speed of 73.57 ih.p.li., . &s. against Hemery's 31.326aec, and ''TI.QQQ m.h.p. 'Oyer the half-mile 'Hornsted did 25.495ec. m the normal direction, and' 25.6Psec. m the opposite direction, a mean ojf a5.5455e'c,, giving a pa(?e of 70.47 iii.'p.K. jff^jpery'a pld record for the standing. start! half-mile was 25.566 aec, equal to 70.406 m.p.h. .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19140214.2.133
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLL, Issue 13305, 14 February 1914, Page 10
Word Count
173RECORDS AT BROOKLANDS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLL, Issue 13305, 14 February 1914, Page 10
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in