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 Model H by the end of the war in 1918. The Triumph Engineering Co Ltd had been using the advertising slogan "Trusty Triumph" since 1910 and the Model H became known as 'The Trusty' as it proved reliable in wartime conditions, despite a weakness in the front fork spring. This was prone to break on rough ground, so despatch riders would strap a leather belt around it as a precaution. After the war, the motorcycle didn't have enough speed for racing, which was one of the principle markets for motorcycles at the time, so Triumph moved on to a motorcycle designed by