Sujet

Sir Henry Segrave AKA Major Segrave's Driving 'Sunbeam' Out of a Factory Watched By a..., 1927. Creator: British Pathe Ltd.

Légende

Sir Henry Segrave AKA Major Segrave's Driving 'Sunbeam' Out of a Factory Watched By a Crowd of Civilians, 1927. Segrave's 1000 HP Sunbeam car 'Mystery' (also known as 'the Slug') in which he set a new world land speed record of 203.79 miles per hour at Daytona Beach, Florida, on 29 March 1927. From "Time To Remember - Fast And Far in the Twenties", 1927 (Reel 1); a look at the obsession with speed and travel during the late 1920s.

Date

1927

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/British Pathe Limited

Notre référence

HRM24A38_153

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,3Mo (705,9Ko) / 42,0cm x 33,6cm / 4959 x 3967 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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