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One such was Eric Fernihough, who established a new World Record for the Flying Kilometre on a solo of 169.7 mph on 19th April, 1937 on a supercharged Brough Superior JAP. The venue was a public road in Gyon, Hungary and as well as the solo record, he set a new Sidecar Flying Kilometre mark of 137mph on the same machine with an unmanned chair fitted. Fernihough was an internationally successful motorcycle racer, with notable victories at Brooklands, and on the Continent. In 1935 he set an absolute lap record at Brooklands of 123.54 mph on the Brough – a time that stood until just before the track closed in 1939 when it was bettered by Noel Pope.

Going back a few years to 1939, the Wolverhampton firm