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CAPTAIN EYSTON in his motor-car Thunderbolt broke the world's land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, on August 27. Over the measured mile, the car averaged 345.49 m.p.h. for both ways; the outward run being 347.49 m.p.h., and the return 343.51 m.p.h. The former record, established also by Captain Eyston in 1937, was 311.42 m.p.h. The Thunderbolt has two Rolls-Royce engines, each capable of developing up to 2,350 h.p.
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Announcements. Nature 142, 430 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142430b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142430b0