SUNDRY SPORTS.
MOTORING.
THE SPEED CRAZE
It was only a w.oek ago that Percy Lambert was killed on Lrooklands track in England, while trying to beat his own hour record of 110 miles per hour. Now, according to files by the latest English mail, Hornsted, in a 200-h.p. Benz, is making arrangements to cover 120 miles in 60 minutes, which
means averaging two miles per minute, for an hour—the most coveted of world's records. The speed craze will not end here, however, for Duray, tingreat French driver, is reported to have said in Paris that he hoped, with the 300-h.p. F.1.A.T., to do 150 miles in the hour, and prove that the motor car is faster than the aeroplane. And Mr Coatalen has his 12-cylinder Sunbeam waiting to see if it can do what it was designed for—once and for all establish such figures as to make the record board practically unassailable.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 6
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152SUNDRY SPORTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 6
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