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ON February 22, Sir Malcolm Campbell broke his own motor-car speed record on Daytona Beach, Florida, in his car the Blue Bird. On the southward run Sir Malcolm covered the mile in 13.16 sec. and in the northern run in 13.60 sec. His mean speed worked out at 272.108 miles per hour, thus being well ahead of his record of 253.978 miles per hour set up last year. The Blue Bird is fitted with a Rolls-Royce engine developing 2,350 H.P. at 3,200 R.M.P. The engine has a bore of 6 in. and a stroke of 6.6 in. This type of engine was also installed in the aeroplane which won the Schneider Trophy for Great Britain and in the machine in which Flight-Lieut. Stainforth achieved the world's present air speed record of 407.5 miles per hour.
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Motor-Car Speed Record. Nature 131, 303 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131303d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131303d0