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FATAL MOTOR SMASH. MOTORIST'S PATHETIC PROMISE TO FIANCEE. By Tefeerftph—Frets Aesooiatlon— Oopyilcht London, October 3. It was Mr.' Lambert, a director of the Talbot Company, who madotho record of over 110 miles an hour in a Talbot motor-car at Brookland, as cabled on October 28. To-day the same car had just covered fifty miles in twenty-eight minutes—a record —when the off-sido back tire ( burst and tho car skidded. Lambert kept tho car straight for a hundred yards. Ho then lost control of the car, which ran up to tho top of tho track and somersaulted thrico before reaching tho bottom. Lambert fell out midway and was terrible injured. Ho died whilo on tho way to tho hospital from a fractured skull. Lambert promised his fiancee last night that, whether he was successful or not, this would bo his last attempt at record-breaking. ■
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 7
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145HIS LAST RECORD. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 7
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