MOTOR’S FLYING MILE
SPEED RECORD SMASHED AMERICAN TAKES TROPHY (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) NEW YORK, Sunday. At Laytona Beach, Florida, Ray Keech, driving a triplex special 36cylindered car owned by Mr. J. M. White, the Philadelphia motor-car manufacturer, established a new speed record with an average of 207.5526 miles an hour. His time for one mile was 17.345 seconds. This breaks Captain Campbell’s record made at Laytona in February.
The performance of J. M. White’s threeengined car just eclipses Captain Malcolm Campbell’s flying mile record of 206.96 miles an hour, established on Daytona, Beach on February 19. Sir Charles Wakefield’s 1,000-guinea trophy accordingly goes to America, after being held by the British driver for only two months. This trophy carries with it £I,OOO a year in cash up to the end of 1930. Prior to Captain Campbell’s achievement, the world’s record was held by Major H. O. D. SCgrave, whose twinengined 1,000-h.p. Sunbeam attained 203.79 miles an hour at Daytona in March, 1927.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 11
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