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Malcolm Campbell - Wikipedia Major Sir Malcolm Campbell MBE (11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times, using vehicles called Blue Bird, including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam
CAPTAIN SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELLS BLUEBIRD LAND SPEED RECORDS Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the speed record another nine times in various "Bluebird" cars powered by both Napier and Rolls Royce engines These records were as follows : 3rd September 1935 (Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah) - 301 12mph
Sir Malcolm Campbell - Motorsports Hall of Fame of America On September 3, 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell, at age fifty, piloted this last "Blue Bird," and set a land speed record of 301 13 mph at Bonneville Due to timing and scoring problems, the speed was not confirmed until the next day as preparations were being made for another run
Malcolm Campbell | Biography, Records, Facts | Britannica His son Donald Malcolm Campbell set subsequent land- and water-speed records Each of Campbell’s racing cars and hydroplanes was named Bluebird, for the play L’Oiseau bleu (“The Bluebird”) by the Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck Campbell was knighted in 1931
Campbell-Railton Blue Bird - Wikipedia The Campbell-Railton Blue Bird was Sir Malcolm Campbell 's final land speed record car His previous Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird of 1931 was rebuilt significantly The overall layout and the simple twin deep chassis rails remained, but little else
Sir Malcolm Campbell - International Motorsports Hall of Fame By 1924, a “Bluebird” powered by a 12-cylinder Sunbeam engine took Campbell to his first official international land speed record of 146 16 miles per hour at Pendine Sands on the barren coast of Wales
Bluebird K7: The Jet-Powered Hydroplane That Defined Water Speed . . . Sir Malcolm Campbell poses with his rebuilt Campbell-Railton Blue Bird at Brooklands in 1935, ahead of its triumphant run at Bonneville Salt Flats where the 5-ton, 2,350 hp Rolls-Royce-powered machine set a new land speed record of 301 337 mph – the first time any car broke the 300 mph barrier (A persistent, if unverified, rumor claims the sheer intensity of the attempt led Campbell to