New Captain George Eyston’S Record-Breaking Auto Speed Of The Air Current Inwards London, 1935. Dorsum When Province Speed Tape Winning Cars, Were Nevertheless Cars, In Addition To Could Last Driven On The Roads In Addition To Streets. They Were Non Airplanes, Or Rockets, Without Wings.
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Eyston broke the automobile basis province speed tape iii times betwixt 1937 together with 1939. On August 27, 1937, he broke his ain 311.42 mph province speed tape from November 1936, raising the grade to 345.49 mph at Bonneville
In a lecture he delivered that month, Eyston described his built-for-speed Thunderbolt every bit having 2 2,300-horsepower Rolls Royce motors geared together; the vehicle measured 35 feet long together with weighed nearly vii tons.
The engines were a couple of Rolls-Royce R-type V-12 aero engines, every bit previously used singly inwards Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird of 1933. In fact, 1 of Eyston's spare engines for the tape attempts was on loan from Campbell.
There were together with then few of these engines built (around 20) that many of them had illustrious careers over several dissimilar records. One of the Thunderbolt's had already powered the Schneider Trophy winner.
He volition last remembered every bit amidst the well-nigh versatile together with successful racing men of them all. In spite of a really busy life, George Eyston was the perfect gentleman, well-dressed, softly spoken together with modest.
For relaxation, he was a crewman of Olympic class, an accomplished deep-sea angler, a distinguished oarsman, together with a pilot.
He was non solely a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur only he was awarded the OBE inwards 1948 together with he was a Knight of the Sovereign Order of Malta.
After giving upward active high-speed operate Eyston master-minded tape bids for MG at Utah until 1959. His final motility inwards anger had been inwards 1952, when he averaged nearly 121 m.p.h. for 12 hours inwards the unblown 1 1/2-litre MG EX179 - at the historic menstruation of 57. Not solely was Eyston responsible for much of the technology scientific discipline that went into MG together with other record-cars, including his ain creations, only earlier that he had been Engineering Consultant to Chrysler, inwards the development of the "Super-Power" streamlined sports saloon, for instance.
He had been a pioneer inwards the diesel-engine record-car field, offset alongside the 'bus-engined AEC, alongside Chrysler chassis, from which stemmed his exceptional "Speed of the Wind" together with "Flying Spray" exploits, using Ricardo-diesel together with Rolls-Royce aero-engines. In many of his tape bids footling Bert Denly was Eyston's co-driver together with off-duty they would become angling together.
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