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ON Feb. 24, at Daytona, Florida, Sir Malcolm Campbell set up a new record for land speed in his car Blue Bird. On two runs, northwards and southwards respectively, over a measured mile, his average time gave a speed of 253–968 miles an hour, thus beating his own record made last year at the same place and in the same car by about eight miles an hour. Sir Malcolm made a further attempt on Feb. 26, but his speed over the measured mile was returned as 251–748 miles an hour. His average for five miles, however, worked out at 242–751 miles an hour, thus beating his own previous record for this distance by more than thirty miles an hour. Sir Malcolm's car Blue Bird had been fitted with a new and more powerful Napier engine of approximately 1500 h.p.
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New Land Speed Records. Nature 129, 342 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129342d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129342d0