I just dug up a 1985 Motor Trend publication which listed all of the World
Land Speed Record Holders up to then, starting with 1898.
Records set by Sunbeam were:
5/17/1922 Sunbeam V12 Kenelm Lee Guinness Brooklands, Eng 133.75MPH
9/25/1924 Sunbeam V12 Malcolm Campbell Pendine, Wales 146.16MPH
7/21/1925 Sunbeam V12 Malcolm Campbell Pendine, Wales 150.76MPH
3/16/1926 Sunbeam V12 Henry Segrave Southport, Eng
152.33MPH
3/29/1927 Sunbeam V12 (2) Henry Segrave Daytona, Florida
203.79MPH
Digging back further into the ancestral pool (remember, it was Sunbeam-Talbot-
Darracq when the Rootes Brothers took over):
11/13/1904 Darracq 4 cyl Paul Baras Ostend, Belgium 104.52MPH
12/30/1905 Darracq V8 Victor Hemery Arles-Salon, France 109.65MPH
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