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Description: | The 1000hp 'Mystery S' car built by Sunbeam which broke the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida in March 1927. The car was driven by Major Henry O. D. Seagrave who achieved a maximum speed of 207.01 mph (and an average speed of 203.792 mph) in 17.66 seconds. He was the first man to travel faster than 200 mph on land. Car is pictured at the 'Cavalcade of Transport' rally at West Park, Wolverhampton in 1949. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | J. Boulton (permission given to copy the image) | Subjects: | Cars Photograph Car industry Photographs | Temporal: | 1949 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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