1939 John Cobb Railton Special Land Speed Record DUNLOP TIRES Ad Card Blotter

Description: Here we have a rare circa. 1939 Advertising Ink Blotter/Trade Card for Dunlop Fort Tires Sold by Detroit Auto Supply 133 King Street London Ontario Canada. It celebrated the 1939 Land Speed Record Set by John Cobb in the Railton Special AKA The Railton Red Lion Automobile. It features a fantastic illustration of the car at speed on Bonneville Salt Flats (where the record was set). Here is some information I found about the record and car on the Internet: The Railton Special AKA the Railton Red Lion, later rebuilt as the Railton Mobil Special, is a one-off motor vehicle designed by Reid Railton and built for John Cobb's successful attempts at the land speed record in 1938. It is currently on display at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, England. The vehicle was powered by two supercharged Napier Lion VIID (WD) W-12 aircraft engines.[2] These engines were the gift of Marion 'Joe' Carstairs, who had previously used them in her powerboat Estelle V.[3] Coupled together, these two engines made 2,700 hp (2,013 kW) @ 3,600 rpm, and 3,939 lb⋅ft (5,341 N⋅m) of torque. Multiple engines was not a new technique, having already been used by the triple-engined White Triplex and the Railton Special's contemporary rival, Captain Eyston's twin-engined Thunderbolt. With the huge powers thus available, the limitation was in finding a transmission and tyres that could cope. Reid Railton found a simple and ingenious solution to this by simply splitting the drive from each engine to a separate axle, giving four wheel drive. The vehicle weighed over 3 tonnes and was 28 ft 8 in (8.74 m) long, 8 ft (2.4 m) wide and 4 ft 3 in (1.30 m) high. The front wheels were 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) apart and the rear 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m). The National Physical Laboratory's wind tunnel was used for testing models of the body On 15 September 1938, the Railton Special took the land speed record from Thunderbolt at 353.30 mph (568.58 km/h), also being the first to break the 350 mph (560 km/h) barrier. Eyston re-took the record within 24 hours (357.50 mph / 575.34 km/h), holding it again until Cobb took it a year later on 23 August 1939 at a speed of 369.70 mph (594.97 km/h). It does have some creasing and general wear, but it does makes a fantastic display piece. I have scanned the card both front and back, fairly large for you to be able to judge condition for yourself. I doubt many of these would have survived over the years, and given Canada’s significantly smaller population base when compared to the USA or UK, I imagine it was not a big print run to start with. Most would have been thrown away after being used as a blotter. It also had to survive the paper drives of World War two which was just around the corner. Its an 80 year old survivor. Don’t miss out I will be trying to list several EARLY TRADE & TYPE CARDS over the next few days (spread across different categories), including one or two that are unrecorded in any guide, that were put given away with Tobacco, Caramel, Candy, Gum, Chocolate, Bread Coffee Tea Cereal and other products, covering such diverse subjects as Native American Indians , Baseball , Football, Boy Scouts, Ice Hockey, Golf, Presidents of the United States, NCAA and IVY League Colleges and Universities, Dog Breeds and Circus themes. To view the other cards I have up on ebay please click on the “View Sellers other Items” Icon located on this page. It will take you directly to them.

Price: 97.5 USD

Location: Niagara Falls, New York

End Time: 2025-02-07T12:51:47.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.75 USD