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Roy Nockolds’ painting depicts Donald Healey on his way to setting a two-way average of 192.60mph for the flying-mile in a supercharged Austin Healey 100S Streamliner at Utah in September 1954.

The Queensland Times reported that ‘A modified Austin Healey Hundred running recently at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, in the United States, was timed officially at a mean-speed of 192.6 miles per hour over one mile.’

‘Mr Donald Healey, the British car designer and racing driver, was at the wheel. Mr Healey broke all international records for the five and ten kilometre and five and ten mile distances in class D.’

‘The Austin Healey was fitted with an extended nose and tail and a bubble-top and was supercharged to compensate for the loss of power at the high altitude (4300ft) of the Utah Flats.’

Carroll Shelby, Roy Jackson Moore and Donald Healey at Utah in August 1956 alongside a 100-6 endurance car with the 200mph supercharged six-cylinder powered – by then – Streamliner behind, see here for more: https://primotipo.com/2019/06/08/austin-healey-100s-streamliner/

Below is another Nockolds Bonneville print, this time depicting Donald Healey aboard Austin Healey 100 NOJ 391 on his way to breaking various American Automobile Association records in September 1953.

Credits…

Motor Racing, Roy Nockolds, Queensland Times October 9, 1954, Alamy

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