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Achères, Yvelines
Achères is a commune in the Yvelines department in north-central France.
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Aero-engined car
An aero-engined car is an automobile powered by an engine designed for aircraft use.
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Alvord Desert
The Alvord Desert is a desert located in Harney County, in southeastern Oregon in the western United States.
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American Automobile Association
The American Automobile Association (AAA – pronounced "Triple A") is a federation of motor clubs throughout North America.
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Andy Green
Wing Commander Andrew Duncan Green (born 30 July 1962) is a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot and World Land Speed Record holder.
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Arles
Arles (Provençal Arle in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in Classical Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
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Art Arfons
Arthur Eugene "Art" Arfons (February 3, 1926 – December 3, 2007) was the world land speed record holder three times from 1964 to 1965 with his Green Monster series of jet-powered cars, after a series of Green Monster piston-engine and jet-engined dragsters.
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Arthur Duray
Arthur Duray (9 February 1882 – 11 February 1954) was born in New York City of Belgian parents and later became a French citizen.
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Automobile Club of France
The Automobile Club of France (Automobile Club de France) (ACF) is a men's club founded on November 12, 1895 by Albert de Dion, Paul Meyan, and its first president, the Dutch-born Baron, Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt.
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Babs (land speed record car)
Babs was the land speed record car built and driven by John Parry-Thomas.
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Battery electric vehicle
A battery electric vehicle (BEV), or all-electric vehicle is a type of electric vehicle (EV) that uses chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs.
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Black Rock Desert
The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa north of Reno, Nevada that encompasses more than of land and contains more than of historic trails.
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Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort on the Lancashire coast in North West England.
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Blitzen Benz
In 1909, the Blitzen Benz was a race car built by Benz & Cie in Mannheim, Germany, that broke the world land speed record in 1910.
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Bloodhound SSC
Bloodhound SSC is a British supersonic land vehicle currently in development.
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Blue Flame
The Blue Flame is a rocket-powered vehicle that was driven by Gary Gabelich and achieved the world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 23, 1970.
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Bluebird-Proteus CN7
The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
The Bonneville Salt Flats is a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah.
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Bonneville Speedway
Bonneville Speedway is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports.
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British land speed record
The British land speed record is the fastest land speed achieved by a vehicle in the United Kingdom, as opposed to one on water or in the air.
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Brooklands
Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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Budweiser Rocket
The Budweiser Rocket was an American 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era Blue Flame land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine with an extra booster from a Sidewinder missile, that has been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land.
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Camille Jenatzy
Camille Jenatzy (1868, Schaerbeek – 8 December 1913, Habay la Neuve) was a Belgian race car driver.
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Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird
The Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird was a land speed record car driven by Malcolm Campbell.
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Campbell-Railton Blue Bird
The Campbell-Railton Blue Bird was Sir Malcolm Campbell's final land speed record car.
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Craig Breedlove
Craig Breedlove (born March 23, 1937) is an American professional race car driver and a five-time world land speed record holder.
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D. Napier & Son
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Darracq and Company London
A Darracq and Company Limited owned a French manufacturer of motor vehicles and aero engines in Suresnes, near Paris.
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Daytona Beach, Florida
Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.
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Delage
Delage was a French luxury automobile and racecar company founded in 1905 by Louis Delage in Levallois-Perret near Paris; it was acquired by Delahaye in 1935 and ceased operation in 1953.
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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.
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Donald Campbell
Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 19214 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Dorothy Levitt
Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt, (born Elizabeth Levi; 5 January 1882, died 17 May 1922) was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's world land speed record holder, and an author.
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Drive wheel
A drive wheel is a wheel of a motor vehicle that transmits force, transforming torque into tractive force from the tires to the road, causing the vehicle to move.
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Ernest Eldridge
Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge (18 July 1897 – 27 October 1937) was a British racing car driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924.
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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA, English: International Automobile Federation) is an association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR, English: 'International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs') on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users.
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Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM, International Motorcycling Federation) is the global governing/sanctioning body of motorcycle racing.
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Fiat Automobiles
Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (originally FIAT, lit) is the largest automobile manufacturer in Italy, a subsidiary of FCA Italy S.p.A., which is part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (previously Fiat S.p.A.). Fiat Automobiles was formed in January 2007 when Fiat reorganized its automobile business, and traces its history back to 1899 when the first Fiat automobile, the Fiat 4 HP, was produced.
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Fiat Mephistopheles
The Fiat Mephistopheles (known in Italian as Mefistofele) is a one-off racing car created by Ernest A.D. Eldridge in 1923 by combining a Fiat racing car chassis and Fiat aeroplane engine.
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Ford 999
The Ford 999 was a nameplate attached to two distinct but similar racers built by Henry Ford during the early 20th century.
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Fred Marriott
Fred Marriott (31 December 1872, Needham, Massachusetts - 28 April 1956) was an American race car driver.
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G. N. Georgano
George Nicholas "Nick" Georgano (1932-22 October 2017 Alvis Archive Blog, 24 Oct. 2017 The Society of Automotive History) was a British author, specialising in motoring history.
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Gardner-Serpollet
Gardner-Serpollet was a French manufacturer of steam-powered cars in the early 20th century.
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Gary Gabelich
Gary Gabelich (Croatian Gabelić; August 29, 1940 – January 26, 1984) was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) with the rocket car Blue Flame on October 23, 1970, on a dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah.
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Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat
Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat (1866, 7 June Paris, Fr patata ance - 20 November 1903, Le Cannet, France) was a French aristocrat and race car driver.
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George Eyston
Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston MC OBE (28 June 1897 – 11 June 1979) was a British racing driver in the 1920s and 1930s, and he broke the land speed record three times between 1937 and 1939.
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Gobron-Brillié
Gobron-Brillié was an early French automobile manufactured from 1898 to 1930.
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Golden Arrow (car)
Golden Arrow was a land speed record racer built in Britain to regain the world land speed record from USA.
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Green Monster (automobile)
The Green Monster was the name of several vehicles built by Art Arfons and his half brother Walt Arfons.
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Hüsker Dü
Hüsker Dü were an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979.
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Henri Fournier
Henri Fournier (14 April 1871 – 18 December 1919) was a French racing driver.
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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Henry Segrave
Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records.
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J. G. Parry-Thomas
John Godfrey Parry-Thomas (6 April 1884 – 3 March 1927) was a Welsh engineer and motor-racing driver who at one time held the land speed record.
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Jeantaud
The Jeantaud was a French automobile manufactured in Paris from 1893 until 1907.
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Jet car
A jet car is a car propelled by a jet engine.
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John Cobb (racing driver)
John Rhodes Cobb (2 December 1899 – 29 September 1952) was a British racing motorist.
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Kenelm Lee Guinness
Kenelm Edward Lee Guinness MBE (14 August 1887 – 10 April 1937) was an Irish-born racing driver of the 1910s and 1920s mostly associated with Sunbeam racing cars.
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Kitty O'Neil
Kitty O'Neil, born March 24, 1946 in Corpus Christi, Texas, is an American former stuntwoman and racer noted for exceptional accomplishments, despite being born deaf.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.
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La Jamais Contente
La Jamais Contente (The Never Satisfied) was the first road vehicle to go over.
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Lake Eyre
Lake Eyre, officially known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, contains the lowest natural point in Australia, at approximately below sea level (AHD), and, on the rare occasions that it fills, is the largest lake in Australia covering.
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Lake St. Clair
Lake St.
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Land speed racing
Land speed racing is a form of motorsport.
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Land speed record for rail vehicles
Determination of the fastest rail vehicle in the world varies depending on the definition of "rail".
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Léon Serpollet
Léon Serpollet (4 October 1858 – 1 February 1907) was a French industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles, under the Gardner-Serpollet brand.
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Liberty L-12
The Liberty L-12 was an American 27-litre (1,649 cubic inch) water-cooled 45° V-12 aircraft engine of designed for a high power-to-weight ratio and ease of mass production.
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List of vehicle speed records
The following is a list of speed records for various categories of vehicles.
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Louis Rigolly
Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, was the first man to drive a car at over.
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Lydston Hornsted
Lydston Hornsted, (Lydston Granville Hornsted), L.G. Hornsted, Cupid, (1884-1957), was the first British holder of the World Land speed record, which he achieved on 24 June 1914 with an official speed of 124 miles per hour at the Brooklands motor racing circuit.
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Malcolm Campbell
Major Sir Malcolm Campbell (11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.
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Mercedes Simplex
The Mercedes Simplex was an automobile produced from 1902 to 1909 by the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, Daimler Motor Society, a predecessor of Daimler-Benz and Daimler-Chrysler).
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Mors (automobile)
The Mors automobile factory was an early French car manufacturer.
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Motorcycle land-speed record
The motorcycle land-speed record is the fastest speed achieved by a motorcycle on land.
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Napier Lion
The Napier Lion was a 12-cylinder 'broad arrow' W12 configuration aircraft engine built by D. Napier & Son from 1917 until the 1930s.
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Napier-Campbell Blue Bird
The Napier-Campbell Blue Bird was a land speed record car driven by Malcolm Campbell.
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Nice
Nice (Niçard Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard,; Nizza; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département.
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North American Eagle Project
The North American Eagle Project is a jet-powered automobile that is intended to challenge the 763 mph (Mach 1.02) land speed record set by the ThrustSSC in 1997.
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Ostend
Ostend (Oostende, or; Ostende; Ostende) is a Belgian coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Paul Baras
Paul Baras (May 14, 1870 – November 6, 1941) was a road racing cyclist and racing driver from France.
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Pierre de Caters
Baron Pierre de Caters (Berchem, 25 December 1875 – Paris, 21 March 1944) was a Belgian adventurer, aviator and car and motorboat racer.
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Pioneer 2M
Pioneer 2M was a Soviet Group VII land speed record car built in 1961 under the guidance of sportsman and engineer Ilya Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov.
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Production car speed record
This is a list of the world's record-breaking top speeds achieved by street-legal production cars (as opposed to concept cars or modified cars).
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Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner (born 1968) is an American writer, known for her novels Telex from Cuba (2008) and The Flamethrowers (2013).
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Railton Special
The Railton Special, later rebuilt as the Railton Mobil Special, is a one-off motor vehicle designed by Reid Railton and built for John Cobb's successful attempts at the land speed record in 1938.
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Ray Keech
Charles Raymond Keech (born May 1, 1900 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania - June 15, 1929) was a board track and brick track racer in the 1920s.
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René Thomas (racing driver)
René Thomas (March 7, 1886 – September 23, 1975) was a French motor racing champion.
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Richard Noble
Richard James Anthony Noble, OBE (born 6 March 1946) is a Scottish entrepreneur who was holder of the land speed record between 1983 and 1997.
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Rocket
A rocket (from Italian rocchetto "bobbin") is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.
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Rolls-Royce Avon
The Rolls-Royce Avon was the first axial flow jet engine designed and produced by Rolls-Royce.
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Rolls-Royce R
The Rolls-Royce R was a British aero engine designed and built specifically for air racing purposes by Rolls-Royce Limited.
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Rolls-Royce Spey
The Rolls-Royce Spey (company designations RB.163 and RB.168 and RB.183) is a low-bypass turbofan engine originally designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce that has been in widespread service for over 40 years.
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Rosco McGlashan
Rosco McGlashan (born 1950) OAM is an Australian drag racing record-holder, who currently holds the Australian land speed record at 500 mph (802.6 km/h).
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Sobriquet
A sobriquet or soubriquet is a nickname, sometimes assumed, but often given by another.
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Sound barrier
The sound barrier or sonic barrier is a popular term for the sudden increase in aerodynamic drag and other effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when it approaches supersonic speed.
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Southern California Timing Association
Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) is a competition sanctioning body that maintains rules and record for Land Speed Racing events held at El Mirage Dry Lake, California and at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
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Spirit of America (automobile)
Spirit of America is the trademarked name used by Craig Breedlove for his land speed record-setting vehicles.
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Stanley Motor Carriage Company
The Stanley Motor Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of steam-engine vehicles; it operated from 1902 to 1924.
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Steam car
A steam car is a car (automobile) powered by a steam engine.
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Sunbeam 1000 hp
The Sunbeam 1000 HP Mystery, or "The Slug", is a land speed record-breaking car built by the Sunbeam car company of Wolverhampton that was powered by two aircraft engines.
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Sunbeam 350HP
The Sunbeam 350HP is an aero-engined car built by the Sunbeam company in 1920, the first of several land speed record breaking cars with aircraft engines.
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Sunbeam Matabele
The Sunbeam Matabele was a British 12-cylinder aero engine that was first flown in 1918.
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Sunbeam Motor Car Company
Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited was a British motor car manufacturer with its works at Moorfields in Blakenhall, a suburb of Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire, now West Midlands.
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Supersonic speed
Supersonic travel is a rate of travel of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1).
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The Bullet Project
The Bullet Project is a project that aims to construct a vehicle called The RV1.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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Thrust2
Thrust2 is a British designed and built jet propelled car, which held the world land speed record from 4 October 1983 to 25 September 1997.
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ThrustSSC
ThrustSSC, Thrust SSC or Thrust supersonic car, is a British jet-propelled car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers, Jeremy Bliss, Reece Liebenberg and Joshua Hambury.
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Thunderbolt (car)
Thunderbolt was a British Land Speed Record holder of the 1930s, driven by Captain George E.T. Eyston.
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Tom Green (designer)
Tom Green worked with Walt Arfons to design and drive the Wingfoot Express, the jet-powered land speed record car.
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Turbofan
The turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion.
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Turbojet
The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine, typically used in aircraft.
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Victor Hémery
Victor Hémery (18 November 1876 – 9 September 1950) was a champion French racecar driver of the early Grand Prix motor racing era.
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White Triplex
The White Triplex (also known as the "Triplex Special" and the "Spirit of Elkdom") was an American land speed record car built for J. H. White and driven by Ray Keech.
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William Kissam Vanderbilt
William Kissam Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder.
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Wingfoot Express
The Wingfoot Express was Walt Arfons and Tom Green's jet-powered land speed record car, driven by Green to a record on October 2, 1964, after Walt suffered a heart attack just prior.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record
