For live years Sir Malcolm Campbell has been trying to learn how it would feel to drive Bluebird, his 2,500-h.p., 28 ft., 6-ton automobile, at 300 m.p.h. Last week at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, he found out:
"My good lads shoved me off and the Bluebird made a good getaway in first speed. . . . Ahead of me stretched a seemingly illimitable field of glaring white with an eight-inch black strip down the centre to guide me. . . . Faster & faster I went. It was the first time a world's...
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