Mallard: How the Blue Streak Broke the World Speed Record by Don Hale

Mallard: How the Blue Streak Broke the World Speed Record

Don Hale

256 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In July 1938, the superbly streamlined A4 Pacific class steam locomotive "Mallard" set a world speed record on the East Coast main line of 126mph, a record which still stands. Now, some 65 years on, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record ...

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