Mercedes-Benz Streamliner car hungry Sheffield Wednesday footballer Terry Curran

Sheffield Wednesday footballer Terry Curran decked out in the team's rosettes

23 March 1952

The spectators are piled up on the bank behind him

Punk rock band 'The Skids' performing in Brighton

and examining the animals in pens

Mercedes-Benz Streamliner car hungry Sheffield Wednesday footballer Terry CurranMercedes 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