Closed Course Speed Record Holders
Five Miles in Competition
E Service Runabout Class

Date	Site	Name(s)	Boat	Engine/Hull	Speed (MPH)
06/xx/52	New Orleans (1 2/3 mile)	Bob Bourcq			52.264
08/14/55	Buffalo, NY (2 ½ Mile)	Enoch Walker	Vaughn Francis	Gray/Davis	52.957
08/19/56	Edgewater, MD (1 2/3 mile)	Harry Bickford	SKIP-E	Gray/Bickford	53.066
09/29/56	Elisabeth City, NC (2 ½ Mile)	Harry Bickford	SKIP-E	Gray/Bickford	55.624
10/05/58	Elisabeth City, NC (2 ½ Mile)	Harry Bickford	SKIP-E	Chev/Bickford	60.976
07/10/60	Langley, VA (1 2/3 mile)	Harry Bickford	SKIP-E	Chev/Bickford	61.913
10/02/60	Elisabeth City, NC (1 2/3 mile)	Dick Cooper	Second Mortgage	Chev/	63.336
08/22/65	St. Pete, FL	Ben Pumo	Second Mortgage	Chev/	67.976
xx/xx/71	St. Petersburg, FL*				69.471

* was current record shown in the St. Pete program for 1971 race.
 

Straightaway Speed Record Holders
One Mile or One Kilometer
E Service Runabout Class

Date	Site	Name(s)	Boat	Engine/Hull	Speed (MPH)
xx/xx/47		Edison Hedges			46.095
08/15/48	Cambridge, MD	R. A. Bondy	Peggy		46.953
xx/xx/53	Abingdon, MD	Enoch Walker	Vaughn Francis	Gray/Davis	56.427
xx/xx/1954		Enoch Walker	Vaughn Francis	Gray/Davis	56.967
09/29/56	Elisabeth City, NC	Harry Bickford	SKIP-E	Gray/Bickford	64.529
10/05/58	Elisabeth City, NC	Harry Bickford	SKIP-E	Chev/Bickford	69.297
					72.744
12/29/58	Miami, FL	Dick Cooper	Second Mortgage	Chev/	72.813
xx/xx/71	St. Petersburg, FL*				84.895

Mile Record
Kilometer Record
* was current record shown in the St. Pete program for 1971 race.
 

This database was originally compiled by Bob Jones.
This will be an ongoing collection of data. If you can help, please contribute.
If you have written proof of a E Service Runabout Class class racing hull setting a record,
please email Bob Foley and we'll add it to this list. Last updated November 23, 2003.

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