ERRONEOUS CLAIM?

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ERRONEOI’S Ii A lt ?

Sir,

I notice that in their advertisement in your journal Toultnitt Motors claim a Brook lands latt-stwed of 130 m.p.h. for I heir I:3 M.G. Magnetic. May 1 point out that if Ibis is the exI [orlon. ex-Gardner car, it. broke the

Class G lap reeord on If tweasions ui lion Horton’s hands. leaving it at 123.58 m.p.h. it) May. 1934 :mil that diving August, 1930, Major (;art Iiimproved on his speed by 0.82 m.p.h., leaving -it zit 124.4 m.p.h. This is (*arty Stated in Volmne Ill of W. ‘toddy’s book ” The St or■… of Brooklands,” so I should be interested to know on what records Mr. Toulmin bases the car’s lap-speed as 130 m.p.h. am. Yours, etc.,

Stockton-on-Tees. G. BENitaouGn. (/.4.-(‘o/,) • • •