SIR MALCOLM AND DONALD CAMPBELL RECORD BREAKERS The “Speed Kings”at Kingston Hill J Sharratt & DO

Sir Malcolm started racing cars in 1910  it was in a Darracq, in a 1912 race at the famous Brooklands race track, that Campbell suffered the first of many near- fatal accidents. This car was christened ‘Blue Bird’, after a stage play by Maurice Maeterlinck, and the name was used for all of his subsequent vehicles – and, later, those raced by his son Donald.

Father and Son with Blue Bird

The 1 st “Blue Bird”

1 st man to exceed 150 mph  Campbell first broke the land speed record at Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, in September 1924; the following July, on the same course, he became the first man to exceed 150 mph.

231.4 mph on land - Knighthood  The late 1920s saw him vying for the record with Sir Henry Segrave. Campbell set a new land speed high of mph at Daytona, Florida in February 1931, for which he was knighted.

Malcolm Campbell next turned his attention to the water speed record,  which he broke four times between September 1937 and August 1939 in a Blue Bird hydroplane, on the last occasion reaching mph on Coniston Water in the Lake District.

Donald reclaims water speed record  Donald, followed in his father’s footsteps and eventually triumphed six years after he started, taking a new, jet-powered Bluebird to mph on Coniston Water.

mph on land  In July 1964 he finally claimed the land speed prize at Lake Eyre salt flats in Australia, recording a speed of mph.

Water & Land Speed Records same Year  Campbell then returned to the water, and broke the speed record again on New Year’s Eve 1964 – at mph on Lake Dumbleyung, Western Australia. He thus became the first (and so far only) person to set both records in a single calendar year.

By A Lever

Sir Malcolm Campbell (11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was an English racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called Blue Bird.

Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964).

Malcom Campbell served in World War I in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and in the RAF. He apparently also had some interest in the paranormal, which he nurtured as a member of the Ghost Club.

At Kingston Hill

Contents Sir Malcolm Campbell Donald Campbell Record breaking vehicles they drove.

Sir Malcolm Campbell Sir Malcolm Campbell (11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was an English racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called Blue Bird. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records.

Donald Campbell Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 rd March 1921 – 4 th January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He is the son of Malcolm Campbell another British speed record breaker. On 4 January 1967, Campbell was killed when Bluebird K7 flipped and disintegrated at a speed in excess of 300 mph (480 km/h).

Record breaking vehicles they drove Bluebird K4 Bluebird K7 Bluebird Proteus CN7

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Sir Malcolm Campbell  Sir Malcolm Campbell 11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was an English racing motorist and motoring journalist.

Malcolm  Malcolm had a grand Prix career, he competed in Grand Prix motor racing, winning the 1927 and 1928 Grand Prix de Boulogne in France driving a Bugatti T37A. Campbell with father Malcolm

Donald Campbell  Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker.

Donald Campbell  in 1951 he developed a new boat. Designed by Ken and Lew Norris, the Bluebird K7 was jet-propelled. A Replica of blue bird k7.

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Sir Malcolm Campbell Sir Malcolm Campbell was born on 18 th March 1885 in Chislehurst, England. He set the water speed record four times the highest speed being mph in the Bluebird K4. He set the record on 19 th August 1939 on Coniston Water, England. He died age 63 in Reigate,Surrey.

Donald Campbell Donald Campbell was born on 23 rd March 1921 in Kingston-Upon- Thames. He set seven world water speed records in the bluebird K7. The first was at Ullswater on 23 July 1955, where he set a record of mph (324 km/h). Campbell was awarded the CBE in 1956 for his water speed record breaking. Campbell was tragically killed in 1967 while trying to break another world record

Bluebird K4 Bluebird K4 was the powerboat which Sir Malcolm Campbell used to break many world records. Campbell set one world record in the Bluebird K4. Donald Campbell also tried using the Bluebird K4 but it was deemed too slow for him. A replica of the K4 is on show at the Lakeland Motor Museum in Grange-over- Sands.

Bluebird K7 The Bluebird K7 was the powerboat Donald Campbell used to break seven world records. This was also the boat Campbell died in when trying to break a world record once more in Campbell broke four world records on Coniston Water. Campbell was the only person to break the Land Speed record and Water Speed Record in the year of his death in Bluebird K7

Donald Campbell Sir Malcolm Campbell

Donald Campbell ( was a British speed record breaker who broke eight world speed records. He is the son of Sir Malcolm Campbell.

This car helped Donald Campbell break the land speed record in 1960.

Sir Malcolm Campbell ( ) was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and water at various points during the 1920s and 30s.

This Bugatti Type 37a won Malcolm Campbell the 1927 and 1928 Grand Prix de Boulogne in France.