BEACH SPEED TESTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1006, 24 June 1930, Page 16

BEACH SPEED TESTS

MALCOLM CAMPBELL MAY COME TO N.Z. INQUIRIES IN ENGLAND Press Association WELLINGTON. Monday. Interest in New Zealand beaches as likely places for attaining record motor-car speeds was shown by Captain Malcolm Campbell, the famous racing motorist, in a conversation with Mr. Duncan F. Bauchop, general manager in New Zealand of LeyMand Motors, Limited, who has returned from a business visit to England. The day before leaving London, Mr. Bauchop had a very interesting meeting with Captain Campbell, who was very interested in what he had been previously told of New Zealand beaches from the point of view of reaching a speed of approximately 250 miles an

Word had just been received that Mr. Kayo Don had been unsuccessful in finding suitable beach conditions at Daytona, United States of America, and Captain Campbell was thus able definitely to decide as to the type of machine required. It was arranged that certain information should be obtained and sent to Captain Campbell at an early date, and if this is satisfactory, Mr. Bauchop states that there is every possibility that he will build a successor to his famous Blue Bird and bring it to New Zealand in an attempt to beat the late Sir Henry Segrave’s record.