BABS, 90 years on. A celebration of Parry Thomas's 1926 land speed record, Pendine Sands, Wales. from chitty chitty bang bang Watch Video
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Description: Thursday the 28th of April, 2016, Parry-Thomas’s car Babs returned to Pendine Sands, South Wales, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of their successful land speed record run of April 1926. Parry-Thomas reached a speed of 170.624 mph, smashing the records set by Malcolm Campbell at Pendine in 1925 and Henry Segrave at Southport in March 1926.nnBabs was powered by a 27-litre Liberty aero-engine. Babs began as 'Chitty 4', one of Count Louis Zborowski's series of aero-engined cars named 'Chitty Ba
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