Corrigendum

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Those who read the piece last month headed “100 m.p.h. From 750 c.c.” may have realised that we made rather a bodge of it. Malcolm Campbell was given an Austin racing car by Austin’s, not to “take him to Daytona Beach in America” – it might well have sunk in the Atlantic – but “to take with him to Daytona”, and it was he, not George Eyston, who set the class-H mile record at 94.03 m.p.h. Eyston then got the MG up to around 97 m.p.h. and eventually exceeded 100 m.p.h. with it. Incidentally, he soon had the Class-H hour-record at over 100 m.p.h. for MG as well. –

W. B.