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THE water-speed record set up on August 19 by Sir Malcolm Campbell has quickly been followed by a new record for speed on land. Mr. John Cobb, of London, in his Railton Red Lion motor-car, at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, is reported to have reached an average speed of 368·85 m.p.h. over a measured mile. The previous record of 357·70 m.p.h. was set up over the same course last September by Captain G. E. T. Eyston.
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Land-Speed Record. Nature 144, 438 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144438c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144438c0