George Eyston Trophy events, and the 1934 Mille Miglia He fitted a diesel engine from an AEC bus into a car built on a Chrysler chassis and used it to set high-speed endurance records at Brooklands, attaining 100.75 mph in 1933 and 106 mph in 1936. In 1935, he was one of the first British racers to travel to the Bonneville salt flats of Utah, with his 24- and 48-hour record-setting car "Speed of the Wind". He is best known today for land speed records set in his car "Thunderbolt". Between 1937 and 1939 he set three new land speed records, wresting
Harkers Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah) Harkers Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah) Harkers Canyon is located west-southwest of downtown Salt Lake City, in Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. The canyon empties into the Salt Lake Valley from its origin in the Oquirrh Mountains. The canyon is oriented primarily from southwest to northeast, with the middle third of the canyon descending from west to east. Harkers Canyon and surrounding land are owned and managed by the Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation and has been mined for copper. Although most extraction occurred in Bingham Canyon to the south, Harkers Canyon has been the site of copper mining by the