THRILLING ESCAPE
AN AIRMAN" IN A' RACING CAR. (Reo. June 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 18. Hawker, the airjnan, had a thrilling escape wliilo testing a 400 horse-power Sunbeam racing motor-car at the Brooklands track. He had attained a high speed, when suddenly tho car swerved, loft the track, flashed across the grass border and crashed I through a corrugated iron fence, in which it tore a huge gap. Hawker was alone in the car. He ducked his head, egcaped injury, and brought the car to ai standstill. The car's nose, was flattened.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 228, 21 June 1920, Page 5
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96THRILLING ESCAPE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 228, 21 June 1920, Page 5
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