‘At any moment I might fade out’: archives reveal fearless era of land speed record breakers
Unseen material gives insight into how death-defying attempts by drivers made impact on public imaginationWith the Bonneville salt flats in Utah echoing to the sound of a new land speed record achieved by a British team, the timing could not be more apposite. The historical legacy of the challenge of pushing the envelope of pace is being dusted down and made public in the form of an extraordinary archive from more than a century of record-breaking machines and their singularly…
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