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John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939
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John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939
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John Cobb speaks into a standing microphone at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Three men stand around Cobb, who is wearing goggles, a cap, and a boilersuit, or coveralls, with the Gilmore Oil Company lion logo on the left breast. There is a crowd of people in the background, as well as a Dick Whittington photography truck.
photCL Whitt 2759 ; Whitt neg. 2698
John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939
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John Cobb stands in the driver's hatch of his Railton automobile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Cobb, who is wearing goggles, a cap, and a boilersuit, or coveralls, with the Gilmore Oil Company lion logo on the left breast, looks off into the distance while another man speaks into a microphone being held in front of him. A crowd watches in the background.
photCL Whitt 2760 ; Whitt neg. 2699
John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939
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John Cobb comes to a stop in his Railton automobile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Men wearing AAA armbands escort the vehicle into an area marked "Gilmore record breaker lane". The vehicle has the Gilmore Oil Company lion logo painted on the front. A crowd of people are kept away from the automobile by wire fences.
photCL Whitt 2758 ; Whitt neg. 2697
John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939
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John Cobb's Railton automobile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Cobb drives his vehicle, with the Gilmore Oil Company lion logo painted on the front, across the salt flats in an attempt to break the land speed record.
photCL Whitt 2757 ; Whitt neg. 2696
Crowds watching John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939
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Observers leave the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah where they have been watching John Cobb break the land speed record. Men and women return to their cars and buses to join the large number of cars already driving away across the salt flats.
photCL Whitt 2761 ; Whitt neg. 2700
Service truck in garage, Beverly Hills. 1930
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A service truck of the Maddux company is parked in a large, high-ceilinged garage. There are several automobiles against the far wall being looked at by men in white coveralls. One such man is kneeling by the front passenger tire of the service truck. Lettering on the side of the truck reads "Lincoln" and "Maddux Inc. 9230 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills CR-4131".
photCL Whitt 2513 ; Whitt neg. 2527