Manual Timing
3:09.0   United Kingdom, 9 Aug 36, Berlin (Wolff, Rampling, Roberts, Brown)
3:06.6   Germany, 27 Jul 52, Helsinki (06.78) (Steines, Geister, Ulzheimer, Haas)
3:05.6   Germany, 21 Aug 60, Fribourg (Kinder, Reske, Kaiser, Kaufmann)
3:02.7   Germany, 8 Sep 60, Roma (02.84) (Kinder, Reske, Kaiser, Kaufmann)
3:01.6   United Kingdom, 21,Oct 64  Tokyo (Graham, Metcalfe, Cooper, Brightwell)
3:00.5^  Germany, 20 Oct 68, Cd.de México (00.57) (Müller, Hennige, Kinder, Jellinghaus)
3:00.5^  Poland, 20 Oct 68, Cd.de México (00.58) (Grezinski, Balachowski, Werner, Badenski)

Automatic Timing
3:00.46   United Kingdom, 10 Sep 72, München (Reynolds, Pascoe, Hemery, Jenkins)
3:00.07   East Germany, 3 Jun 84, Erfurt (Lieske, Schersing, Carlowitz, Schönlebe) (unratified?)
2:59.13   United Kingdom, 11 Aug 84, Los Angeles (Akabusi, Cook, Bennett, Brown)
2:58.86   United Kingdom, 6 Sep 87, Roma (Redmond, Akabusi, Black, Brown)
2:58.22   United Kingdom, 1 Sep 90, Split (Sanders, Akabusi, Regis, Black)
2:57.53   United Kingdom, 1 Sep 91, Tokyo (Black, Redmond, Regis, Akabusi)
2:56.60   United Kingdom, 3 Aug 96, Atlanta (Thomas, Baulch, Richardson, Black)

B. STATISTICALLY VALID BUT NEVER RATIFIED

3:19.0   United Kingdom, 14 Jul 12,  Stockholm (Nicol, Henley, Soutter, Seedhouse)
3:17.0   Sweden, 13 Jul 24,  Colombes (Svensson, Byléhn, Wejnarth, Engdahl)
3:14.8   Germany, 5 Aug 28,  Amsterdam (Neumann, Krebs, Storz, Engelhard)
3:11.2   United Kingdom, 7 Aug 32,  Los Angeles (Stoneley, Hampson, Burghley, Rampling)