2 JANUARY 1959, Page 29

SPEED RECORDS SIR,--Mr. Donald Campbell has announced that he and

his team will make another ,attempt to raise the land speed and water speed records. What a pity this great fund of courage and engineering skill is not now directed into a more useful channel. Specially con- structed machines to travel at high speed over flat, calm water or hard sand have no future. The inter- national car races for roadworthy cars provide all the data required for future development. One );eels that Mr. Campbell and his team could make an important contribution in the field of development of transport, a field in which we are confronted with strong foreign

competition.—Yours faithfully, w. M. JAM LS

Road Farm. Churt