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1929 SPORTS / MOTOR RACING / SPEED BOAT RACING - Major Segrave's new car and motorboat to challenge
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0:54Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1929
Location: Unknown location
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Segrave's Secrets! A 1,000 hp motor-boat and a highpower car with which the gallant major hopes to wrest land and sea speed records from US
SLATE INFORMATION: 'Miss England' leaves Southampton for London. (Her bulkhead is filled with 5,000 ping-pong balls)
'Miss England' boat being towed through gates / Worker climbing winch as 'Miss England' is manouevered on land / Vehicle driving off carrying the boat
SLATE INFORMATION: 'The Golden Arrow' ('the flying bullet') in dead of night...sssh!
Henry Segrave's new car being towed along at night time past a bus / Car parked and being wheeled backwards
Segrave and wife posing
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