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Bonneville Salt Flats
- World's Fastest Speedway - Near Great Salt Lake, Utah
A Giant Racer Making
a World's Record
The
Bonneville Salt Flats is a salt deposit left by the receding of ancient
Lake Bonneville. This deposit covers about 159 square miles extending some
nine miles along US Highways 40 and 50 and the Western Pacific Railroad.
The salt is white, crystalline aggreate, pourous, hard and rigid, so that
it supports loaded trucks.
In 1912 this area was tested as a race track and has since proved to
be the greatest automobile speedway in the world. In 1939 Ab Jenkins of
Salt Lake City broke all former world speed records.
Here on September 15, 1938, John Cobb established a record of 350.07
miles per hour. The next day Captain G. E. T. Eyston set a world record
of 357.50 miles per hour.
Aug. 26, 1939 John Cobb again became the world's automobile speed king
by driving his car 369.74 miles per hour. |
| Publisher: |
Deseret Book Co.,
Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Postcard Era: |
Linen |
| ID Number: |
8A-H2738 |
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