Henry Segrave information

Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set...

actress and singer Gilbert Segrave (1266–1316), bishop of London from 1313 to 1316, son of Nicholas, 1st Baron Segrave Henry Segrave (1896–1930), water and...

speed record holder) Sir Henry Segrave as a twin-engine four-seat touring monoplane. A wooden prototype, designated Saro Segrave Meteor I was built by Saunders...

unavailable to the middle-class finally became available. In 1929, driver Henry Segrave reached a record land speed of 231.44 mph in his car, the Golden Arrow...

Against the Clock, The World Land Speed Record, Robert B. Jackson (New York, Henry Z. Walck, Inc.), p.19, ISBN 0-8098-2078-1 [1] Archived July 25, 2009, at...

Nicholas Segrave, 1st Baron Segrave (d. 1295) John Segrave, 2nd Baron Segrave (1256–1325) Stephen Segrave, 3rd Baron Segrave (d. 1326) John Segrave, 4th Baron...

Miss England II was the second of a series of speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s...

northern end of the street. Notable residents of the street have included Henry Segrave the world land speed record holder in the 1920s, who is now commemorated...

water record to Britain. Famed land speed racer and racing driver Sir Henry Segrave was hired to pilot a new boat, Miss England. Although the boat was not...

motor racing first came to Britain in 1926, following the successes of Henry Segrave in winning the 1923 French Grand Prix and the San Sebastián Grand Prix...

Prix in both 1923 and 1924. The green Sunbeams driven by the likes of Henry Segrave and K.L Guinness were during prominent competitions. In the 1920s Bentley...

design closely resembling the previous year's Fiat, to take the victory. Henry Segrave became the first Briton, and Sunbeam the first British manufacturer...

and Grand Prix motor racing was established at Brooklands in 1926 by Henry Segrave, after his victories in the 1923 French Grand Prix and the San Sebastián...

relies entirely on donations from the general public. On 21 March 1926, Henry Segrave set the land speed record in his 4-litre Sunbeam Tiger Ladybird on the...

"piloted" from the ground by future world aerial speed record holder Henry Segrave. Low's systems encoded the command transmissions as a countermeasure...

Thomas, André Boillot and Brooklands regulars Kenelm Lee Guinness and Henry Segrave - while another STD entrant, alcohol heir André Dubonnet, switched to...

the land speed record from the British, then shared in a duel between Henry Segrave and Malcolm Campbell. No suitable engines were available to give a sufficient...

Sunbeam entered three of their 1924 cars including one for 1923 winner Henry Segrave. Parry Thomas' entry was taken over by the non-starting 1.5 litre Eldridge...

second and third place, making it a Talbot 1–2–3, Divo–Jules Moriceau–Henry Segrave. This was short lived, however, as when Moriceau braked for the first...

—Windermere Lake. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. On Friday 13 June 1930, Sir Henry Segrave broke the world water speed record on Windermere in his boat, Miss England...

speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s. Miss England was built for Henry Segrave in 1928, in...

"piloted" from the ground by future world aerial speed record holder Henry Segrave. Low's systems encoded the command transmissions as a countermeasure...

outpaced by Briton Henry Segrave in a supercharged Sunbeam, supercharging being a common feature of Grand Prix cars during this period. Segrave won the race...