1913/02/15 Brooklands Record Attempts

Note: This is a sub-section of 1913 Brooklands Calendar

World record for the first person to cover 100 miles in one hour set by Percy E. Lambert in a Talbot

'For the first time in motoring history a car travelled 100 miles in the hour on Saturday. The feat had been attempted many times by cars of all powers up to 200-h.p., but, as showing the advance in the design and construction of motor vehicles, it is particularly noteworthy that the car which has gained the distinction of getting the hundred inside the hour is Lord Shrewsbury's Talbot, of only 25.6 rating. It was driven by the well-known Brooklands rarer Mr. Perry Lambert, who, it will be remembered, made an attempt a week ago. He just failed on that occasion owing to a burst tyre, but on Saturday the car ran without incident from first to last, and in the 60 minutes covered no less a distance than 103 miles 1470 yds. It was the first time that anything on earth had travelled 100 miles in an hour, and was little short of Vedrines' aeroplane record of 104.5 miles in the time. The previous world's record for the hour was 97 miles 1.037 yds. by Victor Hemery, on the Lorraine Dietrich of 39.6 rating.'

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