If you think.
Even before the dawn of recorded history man marked his place on the figurative
road of progress by his speed on the actual roads of his own making
and he kept by his lack of size
and strength in comparison with the primeval beasts against which he battled for
existence. He was forced to use his brain to survive.
Thousands perhaps millions of years of this struggle found the tiny flame of his
intelligence before and blazed into the greatest invention of all time.
The first group we the way was open man for the first time was free from the
limitations of his legs.
Free to travel centuries later to the lands of his own choosing.
Them almost in the span of a single lifetime distance surrendered to a speed
that advanced God of our machine age civilization drain the automobile the airplane.
And now all three together are opening a new chapter in transportation.
Perhaps the prologue to a better world for all of us in which to live
and the watchwords are farther faster safer.
No lady they didn't deliver this tractor on a truck because it wouldn't run.
It'll run all right.
And how just to prove that this modern Dobbin can gallop along.
Ab Jenkins world famous speed demon though they're up with lubricating oil
preparatory to putting the old girl through our bases.
So long
and Heber headed for the barn this do us need is often a mere drop of forty miles
an hour now. It's forty five fifty fifty five sixty. Hold on there are.
She'll run away with faster and faster and with her along.
Now it's sixty five miles an hour for a new world record with a tractor.
Congratulations say the mayor
and chief of police who seem to have overlooked the law violations.
I'll bet they never saw a farmer go to town as fast as that before
and just to prove that I am dead Drabble sixty five miles an hour.
There's a official Jack the run.
But I haven't made other official runs out over twice the speed he attained on the
tractor in one hundred thirty three.
He drove a special PIERS narrow over the soft bend of Utah for twenty four hours at
an average of one hundred seventeen miles an hour to establish a sixty six record
he's back again to gain more records and Ab knows
that in a run like this all plays an important part.
Proper lubrication marks the difference between success and failure.
Every moving part must be thoroughly protected by a thin film of oil.
Here's Ted Allen three a representative of the second time
that we've been out here with ab to record run.
Specials American Bill Association of a new about a week making the preparations.
They have the latest type of signing Griffin to make everything just the best
possible.
Addison working hard his mechanics been working hard at the car in good shape
and everything looks fine expect to do about one hundred thirty to thirty one miles
an hour or successful
that will give Abba all the American records for the distances
that he runs as well as the international and the world record.
Are held many dean of racing timers will talk the run.
Well after starting on a long journey.
I'm sure they will stand up under so I'm sure the car
and every other part of the fun that we're going to give you aboard
and keep you posted all the time as we go along.
If you want anything from March you write us and everything is in readiness
and is at the starting line a little nervous and who wouldn't be.
You don't pay off like a cell right call it one hundred one hundred twenty one
hundred forty miles an hour. Around that ten miles nerves are working when
that champion of speed is riding over one hundred miles an hour he has no nerves.
Abner's how many revolutions the engines turning up
but the speed in Miles is calculated by an intricate timing mechanism a light beam
on a boy electric cell and
when interrupted by the passing of the car an amplifier indirect connection picks
up the interruption and converts it into the activating force
that stops one group of watches which regard the lab just ended
and start another to record the next last.
Four minutes thirty second one hundred
forty four one hundred forty eight one hundred
from a low flying airplane.
We realize
that I have is going later than our nose there is wondering just how fast these
doing.
Thanks for the average are five hundred thirty to know
what the average up to the four hundred thirty two through as far
as the first world record fall two hundred miles at an average of one hundred
thirty cents miles an hour
or can this man drive two hundred miles are nothing to him he seems to be as
comfortable as all you are resting in his easy to it may be comfortable for him
but it's a little too fast for us.
Are we seeing things abs about to take off. He's actually leaving the ground.
I have cars dissolving in thin air rising
and rising Del Now the car is entirely law.
The drum the core this motion picture of a mirage is one of the most interesting
things ever photographed.
Abdu these are the two hollows a nation then does something about it to him the
camp seems to be standing in a pond of water even mirages can't make their
Here's a fellow who seems to think more about the inner man than anything else.
Right under the bed one hundred twenty miles long and seventy miles wide
and it's said to be ninety nine percent fewer to there goes another record five
hundred miles. One hundred thirty miles an hour skimming over the salt
that is easy for the natural ease of this driver unable them to sit at the wheel
hour after hour without tiring and never was much of a hand of letter writing
but it looks as if he's taking it up now.
And somebody hurriedly goes after a year and a letter and a list of the decimal
and everything holds up as well as the oil. Should worry.
Establishing new records one after another always turning left around this.
Monotonous course from the ease with which he drives one can hardly believe
that he is traveling twenty seven miles an hour faster than the track record at
Indianapolis.
The run is down for this new cars
refueled and inspected in less than two and a half minutes.
Everyone has his job to do and he does it likely and well.
Because all of the time in the pit is counted as running time enough to go nearly
six miles by even this short stop
and is nearly ended.
That settles down for the long night seven hours on the run has only started.
Crowds down on him.
Players are likely ending you know on into the darkness of the engine is the only
sound to break the desert sun.
And other stuff and again the same super serve.
Everything is carefully checked and inspected.
Back on the fall going farther faster than any car has ever been driven to.
Those players are two hundred feet apart
but the speed almost ties them into a complete circle of life in the timers
and mechanics never relax one moment during a long night or of the engine and
that moment headlights tell them
that everything is going smoothly on the backstretch the fault is starting to wear
and to run and a baseball crew goes out to level the course.
Don't slow down and ease after new records are going to get there.
Here's another. Boarded up there.
Nearly every lap
or record after record broken during the night over the crest of the mountain the
first rays of sunlight slowly
and through the dawn abs in the.
Not ready didn't seem to be so funny the way it was ready to eat
but a little orange juice
and a bottle of milk since yesterday noon on into the morning he.
Averaging over one hundred thirty three miles an hour breaking one record after
another at the rate of more than two every minute on the last thing on
the board one hundred forty seven miles an hour
faster than even he thought it could be the champion of them all
and he's not even more than a demon driver.
He's an engineer right off the bat he wants to know just how the oil stood up
and knew.