MOTOR SPEEDING
EYSTON BEATS HIS OWN RECORD. FAILURE OF TIMING DEVICES. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, August 24. Messages from Bonneville Flats (Utah) report that Captain G. E. T. Eyston, in his Thunderbolt, beat his own world's land speed record of 311.42 miles an hour, but owing to the failure of electric-timing devices on the second southward run, the speed cannot rank as an official record. Captain Eyston covered the northward mile at 347.15 miles an hour and the southward run at 346.8 miles an hour. A New York message states that Captain Eyston unofficially attained a speed of 354 miles an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 6
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