A MOTOR FATALITY.
RECORD BREAKER KILLED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 11.53 a.m.) London, October 31. Percy Lambert, holder of several world’s motor car records, was killed at brooklands. Lambert, a director of the Talbot Company, made a record on October 28th. To-day,i in the same car, just after covering fifty miles in twenty-eight minutes, a record, the off-side back tyre burst and the' car skidded. Lambert kept straight for a hundred yards, but l° s t control and the car ran up to the top of the track and somersaulted thrice before reaching the bottopi. Lambert fell out midway. .He was terribly injured, and died on the way to the -hospit»k~-'-He fractured his skull.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 1 November 1913, Page 6
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117A MOTOR FATALITY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 1 November 1913, Page 6
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