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
Triumph Speed Triple Speed Triple in 2010 with a limited edition model that features black paint with red trim and a number of optional accessories that were added as standard equipment. The bike also is the first production Triumph to feature the signature of company owner John Bloor, who rescued Triumph from bankruptcy in 1983. According to Triumph, more than 35,000 Speed Triples have been sold since the model was introduced in 1993. In October 2010, "Motor Cycle News" published details and a test-ride of a new Speed Triple for 2011. The engine is a tweaked 1050 motor, now yielding and of torque.