MOTOR-CAR SPEEDING
KAYE DON TESTS PENDING SANDS.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.;
RUGBY, Jan. 6
The famous British racing motorist, Kaye Don, who expects to make an attempt this year on the world’s land speed record of 231 miles an hour held by Sir Henry Segrave, yesterday to.sten in a racing car the suitability of the Pendine Sands Carmarthenshire, for such an effort He kept his visit a secret, in order to have the seven miles stretch of sands clear. He used the Sunbeam-Tiger car in which Sir Henry Segrave won the world’s record in 1926, and although it was raining and a gale was blowing he drove over the course at 155 miles an hour.
Tlie sands were too wet to enable him to form a definite opinion as to their suitability, and he will make a 'further tost after consulting the designed on the acceleration and deceleration of the machine, a Sunbeam, 'TOO horse-power Silver Bullet, which has been constructed for the attempt on the world’s record.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1930, Page 3
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