AN ATTEMPT this week to break the land speed record for steam machines isn't quite as irrelevant as you'd think.
Sure, steam stopped being in vogue for cars sometime in the '20s but there's something ever so British about a plucky bunch of blokes heading out to the desert, determined to break a record with what's essentially the world's fastest kettle.
You can just imagine these chaps tinkering away in the sheds, James May style, to create the contraption, and despite the last steam record being set an awfully long time ago - 1906, in fact - you just can't help but love them for trying. The fact that one of them is Donald Campbell's nephew only adds to it.
It's people like these chaps who go on to create hovercrafts and Concorde and penicillin, so they need all the encouragement they can get.
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