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Interesting Engineering on MSNBlue Bird: World’s first car to break 150 mph in 1925 set to make a brief comebackThe “Blue Bird” car is expected to return to historic Pendine Sands in south-west Wales. A century ago, this beach witnessed a motoring milestone: the moment a 350-horsepower Sunbeam car named Blue ...
A historic vehicle has returned to the sands where it once made history. The Sunbeam 350hp, which became the first car to ...
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The First Cars To Break Every Important Speed Record - MSNIn 1920, it built a car called the Sunbeam 350HP, named for its output, which was specifically designed to capture land speed records. Power came from an 18.8-liter V12 airplane engine mated to a ...
Blue Bird returned to Pendine Sands 10 years ago for the 90th anniversary of the land-speed record [National Motor Museum, Beaulieu] In 1925, on a beach in south-west Wales, the automotive world was ...
Pendine Sands, stretching for miles along the coast of south-west Wales, marks a motoring milestone on Monday with the return ...
The Sunbeam 1000 HP was the first non-American car to compete on Daytona Beach for Aland speed record attempt. It broke the record on March 29, 1927, with Henry Segrave at the helm.
UK – There can be no doubt that, for a popular visitor attraction devoted to celebrating the UK’s automotive land speed ...
"Everybody wanted to hear about who's got the land speed record, and it was sparked, I think, by this record that my grandfather achieved," Wales told Reuters. Campbell had previously set a record ...
Pendine was the crucible of land speed records in the 1920s, with enough space for cars to accelerate to - and more importantly brake from - speeds which had become impossible to achieve on ...
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