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This filmclip shows Len Southward breaking the 100-mile-per-hour barrier in his speedboat Redhead, setting a new Australasian water speed record, at Evans Bay, Wellington, in 1953.
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Reference: Pictorial Parade 5. National Film Unit, 1953
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