Average speed report from 1936

[Steve Jones]

Going back to the original post and the comment by Malcolm, this weekend we've been marshaling at the VSCC Herefordshire Trial. We live in North Yorkshire and drove down in the modern on Friday. That was 180 miles including a 20 mile diversion off the M5 and back to view a car near Pershore. The majority of the rest was motorway at 70 in cruise as much as possible. Return yesterday was 160 miles all but around 10 miles again on motorway at 70 in cruise as much as possible. The remaining 66 miles over the weekend were along B roads and narrow Herefordshire lanes where 20 mph can, sometimes, be too fast. According to the car, we averaged 41mph over the full weekend. Not that much faster, really, than in 1936 given the motorway mileage.

Steve