TRANSPORT: Major Segrave captures speed record at Daytona (1929)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Maj. Segrave drives auto at mph. Maj. Segrave in International speed trials at? Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION - ONE WAS TAKEN - USA: Florida: Daytona Beach EXT Cars parked and crowds lining beach to watch land-speed record attempt / Major Segrave in his Golden Arrow car racing along beach / Car pulls up as officials walk towards it /Major Segrave getting out of car and shaking hands with well-wishers SLATE Close of White Triplex challenger Lee Bible in car / White Trriplex car / White Triplex car racing along beach SLATE Wreckage of car that also killed a cinematographer/ man pushing wheel and leaning it against the wreckage as crowds look on / Body loaded into back of vehicle Background: Maj. Segrave drives auto at mph. Maj. Segrave in International speed trials at Daytona Beach. Sir Henry O’Neal de Hane Segrave breaks record (formerly held by
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