Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston MC OBE (28 June 1897 – 11 June 1979) was a British engineer, inventor, and racing driver best known for breaking the...
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Eyston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernard Eyston (1628–1709), English Franciscan friar Charles Eyston (1667–1721), English...
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at Bonneville November 19, 1937 Bonneville Salt Flats, United States George Eyston Thunderbolt Internal combustion: 2 × 36.7 L (2,240 cu in) V12 Rolls-Royce...
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R19 by Lord Wakefield, and R39 by Rolls-Royce. He then lent R17 to George Eyston. Once he had achieved the 300 mph (480 km/h) record on 3 September 1935...
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by Captain George E.T. Eyston. Between 1937 and 1939, the competition for the Land Speed Record was between two Englishmen: Captain Eyston and John Cobb...
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century. Notable members of the Eyston family include Charles Eyston, a 17th-century antiquarian, and Captain George Eyston, who held the world land speed...
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cars of the 1930s. They were most notably, but not always, driven by George Eyston. Although of small engine capacity, they were frequently supercharged...
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V12 to diesel operation using single sleeve valve technology: Captain George Eyston used the new engine in the Flying Spray, which, at 159 miles per hour...
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A series of experimental cars had also been made allowing Captain George Eyston to take several world speed records. In spite of the formal racing ban...
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record-breaking car of the 1930s, built for and driven by Captain George Eyston. The car was designed by Eyston and E A D Eldridge, then built by the father of Tom...
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Ferdinand Porsche first targeted a speed of 550 km/h (342 mph), but after George Eyston's and John Cobb's successful LSR runs of 1938 and 1939 the target speed...
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sleeve-valve diesel engine designed for Rolls-Royce by Harry Ricardo 1930. In a car driven by George Eyston it held the diesel land speed record until 1950....
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Record holder (B141AE, B206GA, B22GA) Billy Cotton, bandleader (B125DG) George Eyston, three time World Land Speed Record holder (B24DG, B82GA) E.R. Hall...
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people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2024. JOHN COBB AND GEORGE EYSTON MATERIAL - SOUND, 4 August 2015, retrieved 20 March 2024 Rowbotham,...
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designer/engineer and racing driver) Ernest Eldridge (racing driver) George Eyston (racing driver) Dudley Froy (racing driver and pilot) Claude Grahame-White...
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location for such events, and in attracting overseas drivers such as George Eyston and Sir Malcolm Campbell to compete there. He drove the Duesenberg "Mormon...
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who had raced for Delage the previous year. The other entries were George Eyston for Aston Martin and aircraft designer Maj Frank Halford in his own...
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supercharged, straight 8 ran at Le Mans, driven by Edouard Brisson, George Eyston (of land speed racing fame), and co-drivers Philippe de Rothschild and...
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Midget. A special car, EX120 had been developed from the M-Type for George Eyston to make an attempt on the 750 cc class 24-hour record at Autodrome de...
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George Eyston, the land speed record holder. Supercharging first appeared on production MGs with the C type or Montlhéry Midget, inspired by Eyston's...
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ahead of the Alfa Romeo, with the Biondetti/Parenti Maserati third. Birkin/Eyston were the first privateers home in fourth, while the cars of Divo and Nuvolari...
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including Raymond Sommer, Swede Per-Viktor Widengren and Englishman George Eyston. Perhaps the most interesting entries were from the American Frank Scully...
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was killed just three months later at Monza. Philippe Étancelin and George Eyston, both in privateer Alfa Romeos, finished in second and third, respectively...
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longer change gear. Campari caught him and took the win by 52 seconds. George Eyston's reliable run netted him third place. After the race, a protest was...
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Varzi". Vintage Motorsport. No. 2. March–April 2009. "Cobbs Challenge to Eyston Attempt on Record Roll". Trove.nla.gov.au. 21 June 1938. Retrieved 8 December...
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one converted Kestrel was subsequently used successfully by Captain George Eyston in a land-speed record car named Speed of the Wind. The second engine...
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Charles Eyston (22 September 1667 – 5 November 1721) was an English antiquary. As a scholar he became a friend of Thomas Hearne, who wrote of him: "He...
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(310 mi) record at 164.47 mph (264.69 km/h) (breaking a record set by George Eyston), the 24‑hour record at 153.82 mph (247.55 km/h), and the 48‑hour record...
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final entry was the Halford Special, recently sold by Frank Halford to George Eyston. Earlier in the weekend, Divo had won the Course de Formula Libre in...
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instead to focus on attaining speed and endurance records. In April, George Eyston drove an 8-litre sleeve-valve Panhard at Montlhéry, setting a new 1-hour...
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