Catch a Glimpse Under the Skin of the Railton Special Land-Speed-Record Setter in 1947

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In the mid-20th Century, the easiest way to make big horsepower for land-speed attempts was to build a wheeled vehicle around an airplane engine. The post-war era found powerplants like the Allison V12 cheaply bountiful and therefore applied vigorously to straight-line applications. However, the pre-war streamliners didn’t have quite so many options available and when […]

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