Sir Henry Segrave AKA Major Segrave's Climbing Into 'Sunbeam' Watched By a Crowd of Civilians, 1927. Segrave behind the wheel of his 1000 HP Sunbeam car 'Mystery' (also known as 'the Slug') in which he set a new world land speed record of 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.

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