172 MILES AN HOUR.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. ‘'Sydney Sun” Cable. (Received April 28, 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 27. PARRY THOMAS, driving a composite car, equipped with a 400 horse-power American aero engine developing 800 horse-power, beat the world’s record on Pendine sands, Carmarthenshire, traversing a mile both ways at a rate of 169 miles hourly, reaching 172 miles per hour with the wind.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17832, 28 April 1926, Page 9
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