- 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
- CAPTAIN SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL AND HIS BLUEBIRD LAND WATER SPEED RECORD . . .
Sir Malcolm Campbell (born March 11, 1885 in Chiselhurst, Kent, England - died December 31, 1948) gained the world speed record on Land and on Water at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called Bluebird
- Worlds first 150mph car Blue Bird to return to Pendine Sands - BBC
A car dealer named Malcolm Campbell and his 350-horsepower Sunbeam car named Blue Bird, hoped to use the seven miles of Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire to break the 150mph (241km h) barrier in a
- 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
- 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
- Sir Malcolm Campbells Blue Bird (re)takes to the beach at Pendine . . .
On July 25, 1925, Malcolm Campbell piloted a 350-horsepower Sunbeam automobile, nicknamed Blue Bird, to a two-way average of 150 87 miles per hour at Pendine Sands in the south of Wales
- Campbell-Railton Blue Bird - Wikipedia
Front-engined land speed record car 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
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