THE NEW SPEED RECORD
A WONDERFUL MACHINE BELIEVED CAPABLE OF STILL GREATER SPEED Rugby, February 20. The new land speed record established yesterday at Daytona Beach, Florida, bj' Captain Malcolm Campbell, the famous British motorist, was made in _ a Napier Bluebird motor-car, fitted with a Napier 459 h.p. Schneider air trophy engine. Campbell’s average speed over the official mile was 206.956 miles per hour. In his first run with the wind his time was 16.76 seconds—a speed of 214.79 miles hourly; his second run against a gale was done in 18.03 seconds—a speed of 199.667 miles hourly. Hitherto the record has been held by Major Segrave, British motorist, who last year in a Sunbeam car accomplished a speed over the measured mile at Daytona of 203.79 miles hourly.
Captain Campbell, who has gone to America to compete for the world record with an American, believes his car capable of a greater speed than that achieved yesterday. Over a slight unevenness of sand face he was compelled to decrease speed at one point. Campbell’s car, which was designed and built nt his own expense, has cost £20,000. —British Official Wireless.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 11
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189THE NEW SPEED RECORD Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 11
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