Malcolm Campbell - Wikipedia
...Major Sir Malcolm Campbell (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....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Campbell
Malcolm Campbell: The Chislehurst legend who broke speed records - BBC
...Campbell's fascination with speed grew into a relentless pursuit of world records in his infamous Bluebird vehicles. In 1935, he made history yet again by becoming the first person to exceed ......
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyp51veyxno
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....
https://ruskinmuseum.com/who-was-donald-campbell/why-bluebird-and-other-questions/
Horror story of world's fastest boat that decapitated driver ? with his ...
...Bluebird K7 was a jet-powered hydroplane built to break the world water speed record, one where over 80 percent of people who attempt it are killed in the act. The boat was piloted by Donald......
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horror-story-worlds-fastest-boat-36735300
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....
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Malcolm-Campbell
Sir Malcolm Campbell?s Blue Bird Retakes Pendine Sands for ... - Hemmings
...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....
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/sir-malcolm-campbells-blue-bird-retakes-to-the-beach-at-pendine-sands/
CAPTAIN SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL AND HIS BLUEBIRD LAND ... - Bluebird Electric
...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....
https://www.bluebird-electric.net/malcolm_campbell.htm
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....
https://www.mshf.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/sir-malcolm-campbell.html
World's first 150mph car Blue Bird to return to Pendine Sands
...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......
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn0dmdkepo
Sir Malcolm Campbell?s record- - Wonders of World Engineering
...Sir Malcolm Campbell's record-breaking Blue Bird cars, in one of which he has attained speeds of more than 300 miles an hour, represent years of careful design and courageous experiment....
https://www.wondersofworldengineering.com/m/land_speed_record.html