This was increasingly common aero engine practice of the time, in both the Napier Lion and the Rolls-Royce R-type, but again was a first for Sunbeam.

It was a workable system for land speed records, used by the contemporary Golden Arrow and more recently by the JCB Dieselmax.

He is met by Louis Coatalen, Sunbeam's Managing Director and Chief Engineer who describes the effort to make the car.

Don describes the planned attempt on the Land Speed Record at Daytona Beach on Florida [4] Competition for the land speed record between Segrave's Golden Arrow and Malcolm Campbell's new Blue Bird was fierce, so the car was built quickly, working around the clock in shifts.

[13] In 1996 a redevelopment of the former works site of Star cars, in St. John's, Wolverhampton into a new Retail Park saw a themed set of public art features referencing the Sunbeam Land speed record attempts.

The whole series of artworks around the Retail site were a design collaboration of artist Steve Field and the sculptor John McKenna A.R.B.S and rendered in 1930's Art Deco manner.

They showed other Sunbeam Record attempts and reference the historical industrial car making heritage of Wolverhampton.