VIDEO: Watch a garden shed travel at 80mph and a jet powered supermarket trolley break a world record.

Shopping trolleys and garden sheds are not usually built for speed.
Pictured Kevin Scott, riding his monowheel called 'Warhorse' and breaking another Guinness World Record during the event.Pictured Kevin Scott, riding his monowheel called 'Warhorse' and breaking another Guinness World Record during the event.
Pictured Kevin Scott, riding his monowheel called 'Warhorse' and breaking another Guinness World Record during the event.

However both were taking part in a speed event at Elvington Airfield, near York, this weekend, where there was a series of unusual world records broken.

Tom Armitage, from Leeds, set a world record in his “Postman Pat” van which reached speeds of 107.4 mph.Other records included Kevin Nicks and his motorised shed which reached a speed of more than 88mph.

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Kevin Scott, from Lincoln, and his monowheel ‘Warhorse’ set a world record speed of 61.18mph while Matt McKeown on his jet powered shopping trolley set an unofficial world record of 61.18mph. The shopping trolley has been adapted and is jet-powered while the motorised garden shed, is a two ton, steel frame construction, with a four-wheel drive Volkswagen Passat inside, and took seven months to build. Others taking part in the Straightliners automotive event on Saturday and yesterday included a jet car and World wheelie champion Gary Rothwell who also broke a world record. Trevor Duckworth, from Brighouse, of Straightliners said: “The main international automotive speed event at Bonneville in Utah this year has been called off due to surface problems.

Pictured Kevin Scott, riding his monowheel called 'Warhorse' and breaking another Guinness World Record during the event.Pictured Kevin Scott, riding his monowheel called 'Warhorse' and breaking another Guinness World Record during the event.
Pictured Kevin Scott, riding his monowheel called 'Warhorse' and breaking another Guinness World Record during the event.

“As a result the Straightliners meet is the main speed event for UK participants is the last major event for 2015.”To establish a record participants had to complete a run in both direction records meeting over a kilometre or a quarter mile. Organisers said records were thought to have been broken and they were being verified yesterday.

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