Layout Plan, Proposed Speed Track, Lincolnshire

Devotees of Speed are, as a rule, such public nuisances —with their speed trials on country roads and proposals for speedways cutting across the countryside—that it is a pleasure to be able to congratulate them on their latest project. This is to reclaim some 10,000 acres of saltings on the Lincolnshire coast and build a concrete speed track between Boston and Skegness, where the business of breaking speed records can be pursued without incommoding anybody. The scheme provides for an absolutely straight and level track protected by a sea wall; a smaller track reproducing the best-known hazards of tourist trophy courses in various parts of the world ; a canal for speed-boat racing; and a road parallel with the tracks for the service of this speed-kings' paradise. It has been sanctioned by the Government Departments concerned, and a company has been formed to raise the £1,500,000 required for the work—which should, incidentally, provide a good deal of employment. Moreover, the most modern of the younger architects, Mr. Joseph Emberton, who designed the new wing of Olympia, has prepared the general lay-out so that the work should be not without mechanical beauty. In fact, it seems that the fens of Lincolnshire, which, since Peacock located Nightmare Abbey in their recesses, have contributed little to national profit or pleasure, are at last to be put to their ideal purpose. [Country Life 24 June 1931 page 28]

Reference    Country Life 24 June 1931 page 28