Automotive inventors killed by their own inventions
JG Parry Thomas - Race Car
April 07, 2016, 06:35 ISTJohn Godfrey Parry-Thomas was a Welsh motor-racing driver and engineer. He had always dreamed of breaking the land speed record set by Malcolm Campbell, and set about creating a car to do it.
He developed a car, named Babs, which had many modifications, such as an exposed chains connecting the wheels to the engines.
On the 27th of April 1926, Parry-Thomas broke the existing record, before raising it to above 170 mph the next day. The record stood for a year, before Malcolm Campbell broke it in 1927.
On trying to reclaim his record, one of the chains snapped and flew into his neck, partially decapitating him. He died instantly.
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