Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 18 | Captain Eyston Plans Start for Utah Race Trial Shortly

Captain Eyston Plans Start For Utah Race Trial Shortly LONDON. Aug. (UP Captain George Eyston, crack racing rac-ing motorist, intends to start for Salt Lake City within two - weeks to try to better 300 mile an hour on the Bonneville salt flats in the biggest, heaviest, most powerful motor car ever built, it was reported today. Secrecy is attached to the car, which is being completed at Wolverhampton, but it wasjinderstood that it would be driven by two 2000-horsepower supercharged Rolls Royce motors, and would have eight wheels and a new braking system. It is streamlined along the lines of a great fish. It measures 36 feet in length. If Eyston's new car materializes, he is expected to go after both the one-mile record of 301 m.p.h. now held by Sir Malcolm Campbell and the endurance marks held by Ao Jenkins. Captain Eyston recently wrote the Salt Lake City chamber cham-ber of commerce that he planned to devote much of September and October to his various speed tests on the salt flats. Meanwhile Mean-while Ab Jenkins, the Utahn who already holds the world's records .or the 24 anu 48-hour runs, is still preparing for another an-other run which he hopes will boost the marks still higher before be-fore Captain Eyston arrives. .Moist salt and the necessity to survey new courses nas delayed Ab considerably and it may be another week or ten days before he actually makes his long run. . '