AUSTRALIAN RECORDS
MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY “That record will stand for 20 years.” That remark was made to one of Australia’s greatest road-racing drivers, Mr. Norman Smith, aptly dubbed “Wizard,” in 1924, when the late Mr. A. V. Turner broke his (Smith’s) record by driving from Sydney to Melbourne in 12 hours 34 minutes. In answer to the remark, which was prompted more by admiration than real doubt that the perfect combination of happy circumstances would again enable a driver to get through, Mr. Smith made a remarkable prophecy. “By 1927,” he said, “the development of motor-cars will have progressed to such an extent that the breaking of this record will be possible with a
well-tuned capably-handled stock model.” This prophecy, strangely enough, has come true—the man and the model have “arrived.” In a stock model Hudson Super Six, Mr. E. J. Buckley, accompanied by Mr. L. Bartlett (known as “Hope” Bartlett on the Maroubra Speedway), covered the 566 miles (Melbourne to Sydney), at the surprisingly high average speed of nearly 50 m.p.h., breaking a record that has withstood all attacks for almost four years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 6
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184AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 6
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