[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0579]
Description:
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fastest thing on wheels ! John Cobb's 2,600 horsepower " Railton Red Lion "is a blurred silver streak as the British speed driver races to a new land speed record of 368.85 miles per hour at Bonneville salt flats, Utah."
Date:
September 23, 1939
Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society