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Daily Mail Bleriot Anniversary Race

Daily Mail Bleriot Anniversary Race

Daily Mail Bleriot Anniversary Race

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{detailed description}Here for the first time is the full dramatic story of "the race of the century"-the Daily Mail Bleriot Anniversary Race to set the fastest time between the centres of London and Paris. The efforts of the challengers-often daring, sometimes hilarious-to whittle down their journey times between Marble Arch and the Arc de Triomphe caught the imagination of the world. Their second-splitting adventures made headlines everywhere. The tense battle between the crack teams using jet fighters, helicopters and powerful motor cycles was followed by millions hour by hour throughout the contest. But only now, when the dust has settled and the challengers have relaxed their rivalry, can the full breathtaking story be told. Throughout the race teams of Daily Mail reporters and cameramen were stationed at every vantage point. Hundreds of graphic pictures were taken and thousands of words filed every day by the Daily Mail Race Operations Room. It is from these fascinating files and from the inside stories of the speedmen themselves that this authoritative and exciting record of the great race has been compiled.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Stevenson Pugh
published by Daily Mail 1959 1st edn. 80pp profusely illustrated 18x24
{condition}very good in worn d/j
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