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ON September 15, the world's speed record on land was raised to 350.2 m.p.h. by Mr. John Cobb at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. The car used Was a 2,500 h.p. Napier-Railton. The previous record was 345-59 m.p.h. set up by Captain G. E. T. Eyston in his car Thunderbolt (see NATURE, Sept. 3, p. 430). On September 16, Captain Eyston regained the world record from Mr. Cobb with the Thunderbolt, attaining an average speed of 357.5 m.p.h. Sir Malcolm Campbell set up a water speed record of 130-91 m.p.h. on September 17 at Lake Hallwil, Switzerland, in his motor-boat Bluebird.
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Speed Records. Nature 142, 568 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142568a0
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