This certificate represents the ideal source material as it backs up the report of Fred Westmoreland's achievement in Model Engineer with his flash steam hydro 'Evil Spirit'. Of note is that the Speed Boat Competition continued through WW1 unlike the later conflict. The addition of the World Record caption at the bottom was a dig at the Americans who had claimed the world record in 1918 with the flash steam Elmara, but this was a spot speed and not for a measured distance. Even a source as historic as this is not quite all it seems as the date of Fred's record run was April 1916 yet he claimed the World record from 1915? 'Evil Spirit is now in the safe hands of the Northern Association to whom we have provide copies of all Fred's certificates

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