World’s Diesel Engine Car Record

Series

Series Name
Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue

Super Issue No.
33/87
Date Released
30 Oct 1933
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Oh, to Be in Italy Now That Autumn’s Here!
  2. 2World’s Diesel Engine Car Record
  3. 3Great Gales Sweep North and East Coasts
  4. 4With 68 Consecutive Loops
  5. 5Like a Bird in Its Nest
  6. 6Britain’s First Streamlined Car
  7. 7Vive Le Roi Soldat!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 7
Summary
Won for Britain by Captain GET Eyston, in saloon car fitted with an ordinary bus engine with speed of 106 mph, despite high wind and heavy rain.
Keywords
Vehicles; Records
Locations
Surrey; Brooklands
Credits:
Camera
John Campbell Gemmell
Camera
Leslie Wyand
Length of story (in feet)
95
Story extras:
Film clip

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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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