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
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
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
Why Bluebird and other questions – Ruskin Museum Malcolm Campbell gave his first racing cars boring names before being captivated by the theme of Maeterlinck’s Symbolist operatic fantasy, The Blue Bird, in 1912 The pursuit of happiness, so close, yet tantalisingly beyond reach, seemed to symbolise his own determined pursuit of ever faster speeds