Using a 450 hp (340 kW) V12 Liberty aero engine of 27 litres capacity, with a gearbox and chain-drive from a pre-war Blitzen Benz, it was the largest capacity racing car ever to run at Brooklands. It was bodied by coach building firm Bligh Brothers.

2019年8月23日 · Learn the journey of the 1926 Thomas Special 'Babs.' A chitty chitty bang bang vehicle that earned the land speed record in its time and its renewal after be...

2023年3月17日 · Babs is reportedly the fourth of four big aero race cars dubbed “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” built to achieve new speed and performance records. According to the video, Zebrowski originally dubbed it as the “Higham Special.” It set the 1924 land speed record with an incredible 450-horsepower, jaw-dropping for its time.

Babs was a world land speed record car belonging and driven by John Godfrey Parry-Thomas, the car held the land speed record for both the mile and kilometre in 1926 as well as numerous other records.

In April 1926 the car, now named Babs, emerged with another new body. He celebrated by driving the lanes around Brooklands that same evening, despite his lack of headlamps.

Babs was the land speed record car built and driven by John Parry-Thomas. It was powered by a 27-litre Liberty aero-engine.Babs began as 'Chitty 4', one of C...

In 1926, Babs became the world's fastest car by reaching a speed of 171.02 mph. In the 1920s Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire became famous in the story of the World Land Speed Record.

2018年7月11日 · Tommy had bought the car that should later become known as “Babs” back in 1924. It was the former race car “Higham Special” of Count Zborowski, a racing driver who had died that year in Monza.

Thursday the 28th of April, 2016, Parry-Thomas’s car Babs returned to Pendine Sands, South Wales, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of their successful land…

2024年5月21日 · Babs was far from being Thomas’s only race car at this time; he still had his much-modified Leyland Eight, now called the Leyland-Thomas, plus access to a Lanchester Forty, and a pair of small-capacity and ultra-low specials dubbed ‘Flatirons’ – one of which still survives in unrestored condition and is Geraint Owen’s next project.