MALCOLM CAMPBELL
HAS A NARROW ESCAPE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright .) LONDON, April 6. “I suppose my good luck holds. It certainly was one of my worst expci fences,’’ said Sir Malcolm Campbell after his narrow shave from a latal smash during Easter races at Brookland, in a handicap in which filteen competitors participated. Campbell was driving bis own Bugatti, doing one hundred hourly. He had braked down to take a bend in tne track, when a rod holding the front wheels in position, broke with a terrific crash and tore out tile spokes of one wheel. The other jamed the other. TlJie Bugatti zig-zagged wildly and thousands lining the banking breathlessly watched Campbell desperately fighting to keep the car on the track, on the side of which was a high banking over which a fall was almost certain, while on the other side the crowds were packing the rails. The ear careered perilously for at least halt a minute, when Campbell, with a terrific effort regained control. He got out. cool and collected, but said lie did not know' how he managed to hold her on the track. It was a ghastly experience.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1931, Page 2
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