MOTOR SPEED RECORD.
• — NEW ATTEMPT BY CAMPBELL. A SOUTH AFRICAN TRACK. RUGBY, Jan. 14. Captain Malcolm Campbell will leave shortly for South Africa, to attempt to set up a new motor speejl record in his Blue Bird motor-car. Captain Campbell established a world’s record at Daytona Beach last February, with a speed of 206.956 miles an hour, which' was fastejr by three miles an hour than the previous record. A few days later Ray Keech beat Captain Campbell’s record by a mere fraction. As to the; capabilities of the Blue Bird, Captain Campbell Said he was travelling at 220 mijes an hour before he finished the course at Daytona. The new attempt on the re-cord- will be made on an area of firm clay, 20 miles long and 10 miles broad, situated about 400 miles from CapetownCaptain Campbell states that if he fails he; will return and) build another Car, for which he already has designs, and will make a further attempt. Major H. O. Segrave has had a car of 1000 h.p. built for an attempt on the record in March at .Daytona.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HPGAZ19290116.2.17
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5375, 16 January 1929, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184MOTOR SPEED RECORD. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5375, 16 January 1929, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hauraki Plains Gazette. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in