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Show j! fit 'W "' 1 " ' j.i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 j im i . 1 ii ' i i J 1 1 i. U. Mil...... . I v f i v - If i John Cobb of London races over the measured mile at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, in a practice spin for the run in which he broke his own record to set a new land speed mark of 394.196 mph in his Railton Mobil Special. The fur merchant hit 403.135 south-to-north, 385.645 north-to-south. The previous mark was 368.85 mph. Cobb is shown, below, with bespectacled Reid Railton, standing beside Mobil Special, which Railton designed a decade ago. |