Sport: Bluebird

Bluebird, the world's most powerful automobile, and its driver, Capt. Malcolm Campbell, arrived in the U. S. last week. Capt. Campbell had already driven Bluebird 214.7 m. p. h. He wanted to try at Daytona to break the world's record of 231.362 m. p. h. made there by the late Sir Henry Segrave in his Golden Arrow. Capt. Campbell was having a little trouble with the town of Daytona and the American Automobile Association about expenses for electric timing devices and payment of officials at the trials, not because he could not afford to...

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