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I have been researching a failed world record attempt in an Amilcar
that took place in May 1924 in Victoria, Australia. I was fortunate
to encounter an elderly man, a retired school teacher, whose late
father had been best friends with the man who made the attempt and
accompanied him on many record-breaking runs, trials, sprints, races
and other motor-sport events. The notebooks he kept have all
survived and I have been invited to visit and inspect them. The man
who drove the Amilcar was killed during the attempt (the second try)
but his friend wasn’t with him because he had a bad case of
influenza and was unable to go. Lucky him! The driver was Andrew
Lang, a pioneer pilot and the creator of what is now called
“profiling” which he developed when training pilots for combat
during the First World War in France.
Bruce Smeaton