SPEED RECORD
ANOTHER EFFORT
300 MILES AN HOUR AIMED AT.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received thiß day at 10.15 a.m.) j'j \ LONDON, August 15,
Captain Irving, the;: designer of Segi ave’s “Golden Arrow,” backed by 1 ’ a group ojfj financiers, is building a car, with a guaranteed speed of 285 miles an hour,; in which Captain Alastair Miller will attempt to break Sir Malcolm Campbell’s 251 miles an hour record.
Miller says: “I hope to pass three hundred miles 'an hour.” j M the car is ready in February, an lttempt will be made at Daytona, otherwise -the Ninety-Mile beach in New Zealand. DON’S RECORD RECOGNISED. LONDON, August 15. The International Motor and Yachting Union have recognised Kaye Don’s record, the official figure being 119.75 miles an hour. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1932, Page 5
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