Mercedes-Benz Streamliner car Finish:Single The Thames Tunnel

The Thames Tunnel

Framed in ornamental borders

Interior view in Horsemonger Lane Prison

Sex Pistols guitarist Sid Vicious

Following his record breaking success with the 1000hp Sunbeam

Mercedes-Benz Streamliner car Finish:Single The Thames TunnelMercedes Benz Streamliner car, 1938. On 28th January, 1938, Rudolf Caracciola drove this car at 268. 657 mph along the Frankfurt Darmstadt Autobahn, recapturing the Land Speed Record for Class B cars (with engines smaller than 8000cc) from Mercedes' great rivals Auto Union. It remains the fastest speed ever driven by a car on a normal road. Later the same day, in attempting to regain the record for Auto Union, Bernd Rosemeyer was killed when he