The picture shows Captain Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of his new racing car with which he will attempt still faster time in the dried - u p, bed of an African lake. The former champion chose the isolated Verneuk Pan after a world-wide search, considering it would give 10 per cent, greater speed efficiency than the sand surface of Daytona Beach.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 7
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61The picture shows Captain Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of his new racing car with which he will attempt still faster time in the dried -up, bed of an African lake. The former champion chose the isolated Verneuk Pan after a world-wide search, considering it would give 10 per cent, greater speed efficiency than the sand surface of Daytona Beach. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 7
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