Eyston (left) with fire-damaged MG Midget, 1931[2]
Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston MC OBE (28 June 1897 – 11 June 1979[3]) was a British engineer, inventor, and racing driver best known for breaking the land speed record three times between 1937 and 1939.[1]
^ abColin Dryden (September 2004). "Eyston, George Edward Thomas (1897–1979)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31092. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"MG Car Club of Western Australia marque". Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^"The Golden Era of GP Racing 1934-40 - Drivers". Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston MC OBE (28 June 1897 – 11 June 1979) was a British engineer, inventor, and racing driver best known for breaking the...
Eyston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernard Eyston (1628–1709), English Franciscan friar Charles Eyston (1667–1721), English...
at Bonneville November 19, 1937 Bonneville Salt Flats, United States GeorgeEyston Thunderbolt Internal combustion: 2 × 36.7 L (2,240 cu in) V12 Rolls-Royce...
cars of the 1930s. They were most notably, but not always, driven by GeorgeEyston. Although of small engine capacity, they were frequently supercharged...
century. Notable members of the Eyston family include Charles Eyston, a 17th-century antiquarian, and Captain GeorgeEyston, who held the world land speed...
A series of experimental cars had also been made allowing Captain GeorgeEyston to take several world speed records. In spite of the formal racing ban...
V12 to diesel operation using single sleeve valve technology: Captain GeorgeEyston used the new engine in the Flying Spray, which, at 159 miles per hour...
GeorgeEyston, the land speed record holder. Supercharging first appeared on production MGs with the C type or Montlhéry Midget, inspired by Eyston's...
entered by their European dealerships. British agent Warwick Wright had GeorgeEyston/Dick Watney as drivers. Automobiles Elite, of Paris, hired Guy Bouriat...
designer/engineer and racing driver) Ernest Eldridge (racing driver) GeorgeEyston (racing driver) Dudley Froy (racing driver and pilot) Claude Grahame-White...
used for the car's record attempt on 19 November 1937. Owner/driver GeorgeEyston set a new land speed mile record of 311.42 mph (501.18 km/h) and new...
was killed just three months later at Monza. Philippe Étancelin and GeorgeEyston, both in privateer Alfa Romeos, finished in second and third, respectively...
supercharged, straight 8 ran at Le Mans, driven by Edouard Brisson, GeorgeEyston (of land speed racing fame), and co-drivers Philippe de Rothschild and...
record-breaking car of the 1930s, built for and driven by Captain GeorgeEyston. The car was designed by Eyston and E A D Eldridge, then built by the father of Tom...
location for such events, and in attracting overseas drivers such as GeorgeEyston and Sir Malcolm Campbell to compete there. He drove the Duesenberg "Mormon...
ahead of the Alfa Romeo, with the Biondetti/Parenti Maserati third. Birkin/Eyston were the first privateers home in fourth, while the cars of Divo and Nuvolari...
took second place. At the 1937 24 Hours of Le Mans, an MG PB owned by GeorgeEyston was co-driven to a 16th place finish by Dorothy Stanley-Turner and a...
including Raymond Sommer, Swede Per-Viktor Widengren and Englishman GeorgeEyston. Perhaps the most interesting entries were from the American Frank Scully...
longer change gear. Campari caught him and took the win by 52 seconds. GeorgeEyston's reliable run netted him third place. After the race, a protest was...
final entry was the Halford Special, recently sold by Frank Halford to GeorgeEyston. Earlier in the weekend, Divo had won the Course de Formula Libre in...
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