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, …
CAPTAIN SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL AND HIS BLUEBIRD LAND …
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 …
CAPTAIN SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL'S BLUEBIRD LAND SPEED …
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 …
World's first car to hit 150 mph in 1925 returns for rare showing
Jul 21, 2025 · A century ago, this beach witnessed a motoring milestone: the moment a 350-horsepower Sunbeam car named Blue Bird roared into the record books. On July 21, 1925, British racing icon …
Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird (re)takes to the beach at Pendine ...
Jul 27, 2015 · 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 …
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 …
World's first 150mph car Blue Bird to return to Pendine Sands - BBC
Jul 19, 2025 · 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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …