driving the lanes around Brooklands that same evening, despite his lack of headlamps. A few days later, despite the poor conditions and soft, wet sand, Parry-Thomas took the record at Pendine Sands, Wales, the same six-mile beach that Campbell had used in 1924 and 1925. The following day, 28 April 1926, he raised it to over , a record that stood for almost a year. Death During the winter of 1926/7 Babs was fitted with yet another new body, partially enclosing the drive and rear wheels by fairings. Parry-Thomas was killed at Pendine Sands on 3 March 1927 while trying to regain his own world land speed record that had been broken just weeks earlier by Malcolm Campbell on the same beach. At the time of the accident, it was thought that the right-hand chain had broken and had hit Thomas, causing a fatal head injury as the car was rolling. During the subsequent restoration of the car, it was found that this could not have been the case and that it was more likely that Thomas had been killed as a result of the injuries he sustained while the car rolled and slid along the beach at more than . Parry-Thomas was buried in St Mary's Churchyard in Byfleet, Surrey, close to the Brooklands Circuit. Following the inquest, Babs was buried in the dunes at Pendine Sands. Some 42 years later in 1969 it was controversially recovered, and over the next 15 years was restored by Owen Wyn Owen, at the time a member of Bangor University. For part of every summer, Babs remained on display at the Pendine Museum of Speed, Carmarthenshire until its demolition in 2020, the car will return to display on completion of the new Sand of Speed Museum. References Notes Bibliography External links Wales and the History of the World BBC programme with archive footage of Babs. British Pathé film of Babs being recovered from Pendine Sands in 1969 1884 births 1927 deaths 20th-century British engineers British automotive engineers Brooklands people Grand Prix drivers Land speed record people People educated at Oswestry School Racing drivers who died while racing Sport deaths in Wales Sportspeople from Wrexham Welsh engineers Welsh racing drivers