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A REMARKABLE ROCORD

SMALL CAR’S 187.6 M.P.H. It Is reported from Berlin tiiat Maj or A. T. G. Gardner, driving a special M.G. sprint car of only 1,086 c.c. piston displacement, covered a mile both ways at the astonishing mean speed of 187.6 miles an hour. The previous record in the class for 1,106 c.c. machines steed to the credit of the same driver at 148.8 miles an hour.

The new figure is extraordinary. Gardner was aiming at 170 miles an hour, but so, small is the engine' that many people believed that to be impossible. It is in many ways the most meritorious speed record which has ever been established.

The Mercedes-Benz with which Rudolf Caracciola achieved nearly 269 miles an hour earlier this year had an engine of six times the capacity, the ordinary popular sedan typo of car usually has an engine of four or ii\e times the capacity. The twoi Rolls Royce aero engines of Eyston’s land epeed record car have a total capacity about 70 times as great. v

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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 138, 25 January 1939, Page 3

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A REMARKABLE ROCORD Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 138, 25 January 1939, Page 3

A REMARKABLE ROCORD Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 138, 25 January 1939, Page 3

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