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John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1939
Call number: photCL Whitt 2760 ; Whitt neg. 2699
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John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939

Visual Materials

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 and a group of men stand around his Railton automobile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Cobb, dressed in a boilersuit or coveralls, stands on the left with two other men. A truck and sign are in the background for Gilmore Oil Company, and the company's lion logo is painted on the front of the Railton.

photCL Whitt 2756 ; Whitt neg. 2695

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 bike, India Tire Store. 1929

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A young man in white coveralls sits on an Indian motorcycle, a service bike for Nelson & Price India tires. The motorcycle has two spare tires stored behind the back tire. The motorcycle is parked on the street outside of a building with columns and broad steps leading up to the entrance.

photCL Whitt 2699 ; Whitt neg. 2435

John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939

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