World Land Speed Records

OldeAlp (OldeAlp(at)aol.com)
Thu, 7 May 1998 00:58:13 EDT

I just dug up a 1985 Motor Trend publication which listed all of the World Land Speed Record Holders up to then, starting with 1898.

Records set by Sunbeam were:

5/17/1922 Sunbeam V12 Kenelm Lee Guinness Brooklands, Eng 133.75MPH

9/25/1924 Sunbeam V12 Malcolm Campbell Pendine, Wales 146.16MPH

7/21/1925 Sunbeam V12 Malcolm Campbell Pendine, Wales 150.76MPH

3/16/1926 Sunbeam V12 Henry Segrave Southport, Eng 152.33MPH

3/29/1927 Sunbeam V12 (2) Henry Segrave Daytona, Florida 203.79MPH

Digging back further into the ancestral pool (remember, it was Sunbeam-Talbot- Darracq when the Rootes Brothers took over):

11/13/1904 Darracq 4 cyl Paul Baras Ostend, Belgium 104.52MPH

12/30/1905 Darracq V8 Victor Hemery Arles-Salon, France 109.65MPH