Land speed record attempts ... 403.10 mph in a Bluebird-Proteus CN7 with a 4,000-hp gas turbine engine. These records are particularly impressive given that road cars did not hit 300 mph until ...

In 1926, Babs became the world's fastest car by reaching a speed of 171.02 mph.In the 1920s Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire became famous in the story of the World Land Speed Record. The long ...