OUTBOARD WORLD RECORD
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Channel: British Movietone · 2015 · News & Politics
(26 Nov 1962) Our pictures show West Germany's Werner Schrimpf from Wiesbaden, making his attempt on the world record for outboards between 350 and 500 cc's on Berlin's Spandauer Canal. Schrimpf's target was to smash the record of 116.67 kilometres held by a Finnish flier. He succeeded and set a new world mark of 122.61. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d35fae643487411f915daeba19be3694
