This is the debut showing of Reed Railton’s land speed record car, its tire fairings here removed, in front of the Thomson & Taylor showroom at Brooklands in April 1938. It was called the Railton Special and was powered by two Napier Lion W12 airplane engines. The Special broke the land speed record twice pre-war and finally set a mark of 369.7 mph with John Cobb at the wheel, on the Bonneville Salt Flats, on August 23, 1939.
Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION
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