Show cobb sets record of on salt flats tuesday john R cobb Brit britain ains s speed king set new worlds land speed records for the me measured alured mile and kilometer tuesday streaking across tooele thoele county s salt flats at miles per hour on one run to make an average of miles per hour his average for the lul amter was from speedometers in his rail ton mobil special cobb knew he had set a new record after the final run instead of stopping to let a truck push him to the cen ter of the measured mile as is the custom he turned his racer around and went back his own pow er to receive the of officials and spectators he ile made it clear to hi hia hearers that the victory was not his but the teams reid railton design er of the huge auto and G H tay lor builder and mechanic also spoke to the crowd the new record for the measured mile is compared lo 10 the old record of for the kilometer the new is and the old 7 cobb will not try to betak his five and ten mile and five and ten kilometer records this yea be fause the salt flats have taken qu te a beating with the tests tr tl is fall A stiff wind from the southwest made it doubtful for a while if the speed king would run mad macl anias put the pounds of ice into the car changed the tire and cobb decided to try officials bare ly had time to make it to ohp center of the measured mile before cobb came speeding through spec gators said it looked just like a gray streak streaking across the tile white of the salt and it made you v onder how much man and machine could do the crew set a record too when they prepared the mobil spec al for the return trip in 33 minutes be fore a run is official the racer has to travel the course twice within I 1 one hour some idea of the speed he made can be gleaned by the fact that the auto was within the measured mile 9 1325 seconds on the second run and 9 seconds on the first run the car did the first kilometer in 5 76 seconds and the second in the only difficulty cobb was the wavy stretch near the south end he had to lift his foot from the pedal while crossing the area areas and lost speed in doing so |