Bentley Gallery

John Cobb breaks Brooklands lap record. Mr John Cobb, driving the 400 hp Napier Railton car

John Cobb breaks Brooklands lap record.
Mr John Cobb, driving the 400 hp Napier Railton car, broke the Brooklands lap record. Since the late Sir Henry Birkin put the figure up to 137. 96 mph with his Bentley two years ago, this most coveted of the Brooklands records has eluded other drivers.
Photo shows, Mr John Cobb being cheered after breaking the record.
2 April 1934
30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties

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Drivers & personalities in the Five Hundred Miles Race, 1929

Five of the leading lights in the great Five Hundred Miles Race which took place at Brooklands on 12 October 1929. At the top is Mr Kaye Don who drove a supercharged Sunbeam, Earl Howe (top right), at the wheel of a supercharged Lea-Francis, Captain Woolf Barnato in a Bentley, Mr R. F. Oats (bottom right) at the wheel of an O.M. and at the bottom left, Captain Malcolm Campbell of Blue Bird fame, who sponsored the race. Date: 1929

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Bentley car and aircraft propellers AA087923

HEATHROW AIRPORT, B E A Aircraft Hangar, London. A Bentley car parked on the runway in front of the British European Airways buildings at Heathrow Airport with the propellers of an aircraft visible in the foreground. Photographed by John Gay. Date range: 1960-1974

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Aeroplane, Air Craft, Air Plane, Car, Transport