“When you hear the 24-litre aero engine running : grown men weep, children gasp, angels sing. The aero engine at the heart of the Napier-Railton is the sound of a thousand storms. It’s the sound of… victory.”
Schlagwort: Brooklands
World land speed record holder Malcolm Campbell drives his record breaking ‘Bluebird’ around Brooklands – UK – 17 April 1933
WHEN MEN WERE MEN
Woolf Barnato in his single seat Bentley at the 1928 BARC Easter Meeting at Brooklands.
I am certain that the younger lady stood next to the cockpit is Barnato’s daughter, the remarkable Diana Barnato Walker who flew with the ATA during the war. She went on honeymoon in a Spitfire she was delivering and later became the first British woman to break the Sound Barrier at 1,262 mph in that most macho of jet fighters, the English Electric Lightning . A worthy daughter of one of the Bentley Boys.
Napier-Railton in Brooklands Museum, England. The car has an aircraft engine still holds the track record with 143,44 mph since 1934. This is a most impressive car.