Bonneville, Sept. 15.
'OHN Cobb today travelled on land faster than any other man in the world when he hurtled his 2,500 horsepower Napier "racing car over the gleaming salt flats here at the average official speed of 350,20 miles an hour for the measured mile.
The British speedster also registered a new world record for the measured kilometre.
He was timed at 350.07 miles an "hour for the measured kilometre.
Cobb's new world mark beats the record set recently by Capt. George Eyston, another Briton.
Eyston, driving his powerful seven-ton Thunderbolt, over the same course registered an official "time of 345.49 miles an hour.
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