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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Reid A Railton&#039;&#039;&#039; (1895 – 1977) was an automotive engineer, and designer of [[Land Speed Record|land]] and [[water speed record]] vehicles.<br /> <br /> ==Biography==<br /> Reid Antony Railton was the son of a Manchester stockbroker and was educated at Rugby School and Manchester University. He joined [[Leyland Motors]] in 1917 where he worked with [[J.G. Parry-Thomas]] on the [[Leyland Eight]] luxury car. He left in 1922 to join [[Arab|Arab]] where he was chief designer.<br /> <br /> In 1927 he moved to [[Brooklands]] working for [[Thomson and Taylor]] becoming their Technical Director with responsibility for [[John Cobb|John Cobb]]&#039;s 1933 [[Napier Railton]] car which took the Outer Circuit record in 1933 and [[Sir Malcolm Campbell]]&#039;s Bluebird Land Speed Record cars of 1931 to 1935. His greatest achievement was probably designing the [[Railton Special|Railton Mobil Special]] car with which John Cobb set the Land Speed Record at 394.7&amp;nbsp;mph in 1947. He also tuned the Hudson chassis used on the [[Railton|Railton]] car, named after him.<br /> <br /> As well as cars he designed high speed boats including the jet powered Crusader Speedboat in which John Cobb was killed in 1952 while travelling in excess of 200&amp;nbsp;mph attempting to break the Water Speed Record.<br /> <br /> In 1939 he moved to California to work for the [[Hall-Scott Motor Company]]. He died in Berkeley, California in 1977 at the age of 82.<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> * &#039;&#039;The Motor Men&#039;&#039;. Peter King. Quiller Press, London 1989. ISBN 1-870948-23-8<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.theautochannel.com/vehicles/coll/sci/112bastard.html The Auto Channel]<br /> <br /> [[Category:British automotive engineers|Railton, Reid]]</div>

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