Motorsport
Aug. 17, 1956 - Austin-Healey breaks sixteen year old speed records at Bonneville sale lake flats. With Mr. Roy Jackson-Moore of Los Angeles at the wheel-this modified Austin-Healey Hundred recently broke internatinoal Class D and American records at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, U.S.A. The car covered 200 miles at 152.51 m.p.h and 500 kilometres in 1940. The car is basically a standard Austin Healey Hundred chassis and body slightly modified to adapt it to a single seater and to improve streamline characteristics. The car is fitted with Dunlop disc brakes, disc wheels and high speed tyres. Photo shows L-R: Carroll Sheley of Dallas; Roy Jackson-Moore of Los Angeles and Mr. Donald Healey, with the car after setting the new records. The car in background is another Austin Healey inwhich further record attempts may be made at Bonneville
