"Donald Campbell Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 19214 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land 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 died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England. Donald Campbell was born at Canbury House, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 1930s in the"
"him internationally famous. Malcolm Campbell 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 during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called ""Blue Bird"", including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records. Campbell was born in Chislehurst, Kent on 11 March 1885, the only son of William Campbell, a Hatton Garden diamond seller. He attended the independent Uppingham School. In"
"Malcolm Campbell 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 during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called ""Blue Bird"", including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records. Campbell was born in Chislehurst, Kent on 11 March 1885, the only son of William Campbell, a Hatton Garden diamond seller. He attended the independent Uppingham School. In Germany, learning the"
"for services to land and water speed records, Villa was also granted The Freedom of the City of London and he went on to write three books about his record breaking career, two of them written with Kevin Desmond. Villa died in January 1979 from lung cancer eight months after the death of his wife Joan. Leo Villa Leopoldo Alfonso ""Leo"" Villa (30 November 1899 – 18 January 1979) was the long-serving mechanic of Sir Malcolm Campbell and Donald Campbell. He was born in London, of Italian and Scottish parents. Villa was born in London to an Italian father and"
"and endurance. Those records were sanctioned by the AIACR, the forerunner of today’s FIA. They included both class and absolute records. His achievements helped make the name of the Bentley car company. Duff scored a top-ten finish in his first Indianapolis 500 and a top-three in his first board track race. Those achievements make him one of the preeminent Canadian automobile racers of the first half of the twentieth century. John Duff was born in Kiukiang, China. His parents were Canadians from Hamilton, Ontario who established a commercial outpost in nearby Kuling. As a boy, the rambunctious young Duff was"
"new record of on Ullswater in July 1955. Campbell and ""K7"" went on to break the record a further six times over the next nine years in the USA and England (Coniston Water), finally increasing it to at Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia in 1964. Campbell thus became the most prolific water speed record breaker of all time. At the time Campbell set the absolute record, the piston-powered propeller-driven record was held by the George Simons' ""Miss U.S. I"" at . This record was set at Guntersville, Alabama in 1962 by Roy Duby and stood for 38 years. Donald Campbell's"
"system from 1950 to 1968 5 best results were counted up until 1955. Keith Campbell (motorcyclist) Keith Ronald Campbell (2 October 1931 – 13 July 1958) was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Keith Campbell grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran with the ambition to be a champion racing motorcyclist. He became Australia's first motorcycling road racing world champion when he won the 1957 FIM 350cc world championship as a member of the Moto Guzzi factory racing team. He married Geraldine, the sister-in-law of Britain’s championship rider Geoff Duke and came back to Australia on his"
"Major. Campbell competed in Grand Prix motor racing, winning the 1927 and 1928 Grand Prix de Boulogne in France driving a Bugatti T37A. Campbell broke the land speed record for the first time in 1924 at at Pendine Sands near Carmarthen Bay in a 350HP V12 Sunbeam, now on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. He broke nine land speed records between 1924 and 1935, with three at Pendine Sands and five at Daytona Beach. His first two records were driving a racing car built by Sunbeam. On 4 February 1927 Campbell set the land speed record at Pendine"
"Lakeland Motor Museum The Lakeland Motor Museum is a museum now located at Backbarrow, Cumbria, England which houses a collection of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal cars and motoring related items and memorabilia and an exhibition dedicated to the land and water speed record activities of Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald. The Museum was established in Grange-over-Sands in 1978 as an extra attraction for the Holker Hall stately home. The museum was created by Donald Sidebottom to contain the collection of cars and related memorabilia that he had been collecting since the 1960s. After more than thirty years"
"buried Babs in the sand, where it remained until Owen Wyn Owen began excavating it in 1969. Wyn Owen ultimately restored the car to working order by 1985. In 2013, Babs was placed on display at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. In 1927, Henry Segrave broke Campbell's world speed record with a run of at Daytona Beach, Florida, in his Sunbeam 1000 hp, which was powered by two V12 Sunbeam Matabele aircraft engines. The new record made him the first person to surpass the mark. The following year, Campbell raced at Daytona to retake the record with a speed"
"February 21, 1948, by Bill France, Sr. and built its roots in the 1950s. Two years later in 1950 the first asphalt ""superspeedway"", Darlington Speedway, was opened in South Carolina, and the sport saw dramatic growth during the 1950s. Because of the tremendous success of Darlington, construction began of a 2.5-mile, high-banked superspeedway near Daytona Beach, which is still in use. The Cup Series was started in 1949, with Jim Roper winning the first series. By 2008, the most prestigious race in the series, the Daytona 500 had attracted more than 17 million television viewers. Dynasties were born in the"
"per hour () in ""Blue Bird K4"". Between 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in ""Bluebird K7"", a hydroplane. In 1966 Donald Campbell decided that he needed to exceed 300 miles per hour (483 km/h) in order to retain the record. On 4 January 1967, he achieved a top speed of over 320 miles per hour () in ""Bluebird K7"" on the return leg of a record-breaking attempt. He then lost control of ""Bluebird"", which somersaulted and crashed, sinking rapidly. Campbell was killed instantly on impact when decapitated by the K7's"
"record and the men's record at a speed of . In the series finale episode of ""Mad Men"", Donald Draper drives a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS muscle car in the races at Bonneville Speedway. Bonneville Speedway Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records. The Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The salt flats were first used for"
"in 1906, setting a new speed record of at the Edwards Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert of California. This was the longest standing automotive record in the world. It had been held for over 100 years. The car was driven by Charles Burnett III and reached a maximum speed of on the first run and on the second. On 26 August 2009, the same car, driven this time by Don Wales, the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell, broke a second record by achieving an average speed of over two consecutive runs over a measured kilometre. This was also"
"Donald Morley Donald Jude Morley (7 October 1930 – 23 June 2006) was a British race car driver from Cosford in Suffolk who specialized in rally driving. Donald rose to fame in the rapidly growing sport of international rallying during the late 1950s, and became one of BMC's most reliable works drivers in the 1960s. He won twice the Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) in France, in 1961 and 1962, driving an Austin-Healey 3000, and was co-driven by Earle Morley, his identical twin brother. In doing so, he became the first British driver to win the race in more than"
"Willie Campbell (golfer) Willie Campbell (14 July 1862 in Musselburgh, Scotland – 25 November 1900 in Dorchester, Massachusetts) was a Scottish professional golfer. He reached the top ten in The Open Championship eight times in the 1880s. Campbell emigrated to America in 1894. He finished alone in sixth place in the 1895 U.S. Open which was the first U.S. Open, held on Friday, 4 October, at Newport Golf Club in Newport, Rhode Island. Like many golfers from his era, he started out as a caddie at the links at Musselburgh. At this time he and David Brown—along with Willie Park,"
"greats from the San Diego Yacht Club, in the unusual design of the Naples Sabot, commonly used for junior programs on the West Coast. He attended The Bishop's School in San Diego, CA suburb La Jolla. He currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife Jacqueline Campbell (née Schmitz). Andrew Campbell (sailor) Andrew Campbell (born 3 February 1984 in Toms River, New Jersey) is an American yachtsman best known for his outstanding performances at the national collegiate level and who represented the United States in Laser competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Raised in Toms River, New Jersey, Campbell first"
"Donald Campbell (traveller) Donald Campbell (1751 – 5 June 1804), of Barbreck, Argyll, was a Scottish traveller in India and the Middle East. Campbell published in London in 1795 ""A Journey over land to India... by Donald Campbell of Barbreck, who formerly commanded a regiment of cavalry in the service of the Nabob of the Carnatic: in a series of letters to his son"". The journey was made by way of Belgium, the Tyrol, Venice, Alexandria, Aleppo, Diyarbekr, Mosul, Baghdad, Bushire, Bombay, and Goa. He was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean and made prisoner by Hyder Ali but was subsequently"
"William D. Campbell (Scouting) William Durant ""Bill"" Campbell (March 18, 1907 – October 20, 1995) was a highly-decorated leader of the Scouting movement in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Campbell was born in Flint, Michigan, a grandson of William C. Durant, the founder of General Motors. He graduated from Princeton University in 1929, and first went into banking. After a few years, he became a field associate of the American Museum of Natural History and led six of their African expeditions in the 1930s. During World War II, Campbell served in the U.S. Army as a battery commander. He retired"
"to New York. Their aircraft ran out of fuel and was forced to crash-land at Bridgeport, Connecticut, just short of New York; both were seriously injured in the crash. In June 2000 Don Wales, grandson of Malcolm Campbell and nephew of Donald Campbell, set the United Kingdom electric land speed record at Pendine Sands in ""Bluebird Electric 2"", achieving a speed of 137 mph (220 km/h). The Ministry of Defence (MOD) acquired Pendine Sands during the Second World War and used it as a firing range. The beach is still owned by the Ministry of Defence; prominent signs warn of"
"Bluebird K7 Bluebird K7 is a jet engined hydroplane with which Britain's Donald Campbell set seven world water speed records during the later half of the 1950s and the 1960s. ""K7"" was the first successful jet-powered hydroplane, and was considered revolutionary when launched in January 1955. Campbell and ""K7"" were responsible for adding almost to the water speed record, taking it from existing mark of to just over . Donald Campbell was killed in an accident with a much modified ""K7"", on 4 January 1967, whilst making a bid for his eighth water speed record, with his aim to raise"
"McDonald Bailey Emmanuel McDonald Bailey (8 December 1920 – 4 December 2013) was a British and Trinidadian athlete, who was born in Williamsville, Trinidad. Bailey won a bronze medal in the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games. He competed for Great Britain in the men's 100 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, where he finished sixth and last in the final, and the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki where he won the bronze medal. He jointly held the 100 m world record at 10.2 seconds between 1951 and 1956 and won the sprint double seven times"
"famous automobile speedster who set numerous world land speed records on city beaches.) This name change was prompted in 1989 when Campbell Street was renamed in recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The city was in search of permanent recognition of Campbell's achievements so the renaming of the beachside Clock Tower was an excellent and obvious choice. A commemorative bronze plaque is mounted on a large piece of coquina rock in the east side fountain area and it reads, “Sir Malcolm Campbell, Honoring his land speed record of 276.82 mph achieved on these sands in 1935. Daytona Beach City"
"On the first run both rear tyres were ripped off ""Blue Bird"" and narrowly missed the crowd. Campbell protested to the officials about safety standards and declined to take any responsibility for anything else. Sadly, this time a front tyre came off and killed a boy in the crowd. The car was taken to Pendine Sands in South Wales and saw a more successful result with the first of Campbell's nine records. The record was achieved on 24 September 1924, with a speed of 146.16 mph (235.23 km/h) and an officially sanctioned time. After this he put the car up"
"10 years. Donald also came onto the podium in the RAC Rally in 1960. In 1966 he married Valerie Domleo, also a rally driver who co-drove for popular lady drivers of this decade such as Pauline Mayman and Rosemary Smith. In his later years after retiring from rallying, Donald and his family became farmers in Stowmarket. Donald Morley Donald Jude Morley (7 October 1930 – 23 June 2006) was a British race car driver from Cosford in Suffolk who specialized in rally driving. Donald rose to fame in the rapidly growing sport of international rallying during the late 1950s, and"
"the record to over on Coniston Water. Donald Campbell began his record-breaking career in 1949 following the death of his father, Sir Malcolm Campbell. Initially, he had been using his father's 1939-built Rolls-Royce 'R' type powered propeller-driven hydroplane ""Blue Bird K4"" for his attempts, but he met with little success and suffered a number of frustrating setbacks. In 1951, ""K4"", which had been modified to a prop-rider configuration to increase its performance potential, was destroyed after suffering a structural failure, when its V-drive gearbox sheared its mountings, and punched through the floor of the hull. Following rival record breaker John"
"Sayres broke that record when he reached 160.323 mph (258.015 km/h). He again improved this record on 7 July 1952 to 178.49 mph (287.25 km/h). This record stood until July 1955 when Donald Campbell, son of the former record holder, reached 202.32 mph (325.60 km/h) in the ""Bluebird K7"". In the early 1950s, his two boats ""Slo-mo-shun IV"" and ""Slo-mo-shun V"" (with various captains including Ted Jones) were the 6-times winners of the APBA Gold Cup, the most important hydroplane race in the United States. The IV also won the Harmsworth Cup in 1950, making it the only boat to"
"Andrew Campbell (sailor) Andrew Campbell (born 3 February 1984 in Toms River, New Jersey) is an American yachtsman best known for his outstanding performances at the national collegiate level and who represented the United States in Laser competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Raised in Toms River, New Jersey, Campbell first learned to sail as a child in Toms River with the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association and moved to San Diego, California at the age of eight. Campbell is the former Commodore of the Georgetown University Hoyas Sailing Team (GUST). At Georgetown, he led the #1 ranked Hoyas to"
"Pendine Sands in Wales. The next year, on 21 July 1925, Campbell returned to Pendine, where he became the first person to exceed as he set a new record of . Perhaps the most well-known aero-engined cars of the interwar period were the series of amateur, chain-driven creations of Louis Zborowski that were each known as Chitty Bang Bang. They later attained fame as the namesake for the children’s book ""Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang"", written by Ian Fleming, as well as the film and musical of the same title. Although the origin of the name is unknown, it is thought to derive from"
"he became the first man to drive across the United States. David Dunbar Buick, another Scottish emigrant, founded Buick in 1903. The Scottish-born William Blackie transformed the Caterpillar Tractor Company into a multinational corporation. Harley-Davidson Inc (formerly HDI), often abbreviated ""H-D"" or ""Harley"", is an American motorcycle manufacturer. The Davidson brothers were the sons of William C Davidson (1846-1923) who was born and grew up in Angus, Scotland, and Margaret Adams McFarlane (1843-1933) of Scottish descent from the small Scottish settlement of Cambridge, Wisconsin. They raised five children together: Janet May, William A., Walter, Arthur and Elizabeth. Scottish Americans have"
"in a Bentley Continental GT Speed. On 21 July 2015 at Pendine beach in Wales, the 90th anniversary of Sir Malcolm Campbell's first world land speed record in ‘Bluebird’ was recreated by his grandson, Don Wales, also a land speed record holder, in the fully restored car. Commenting on the restoration appeal Wales said: ""This beautiful car has been lovingly restored and looked after by Doug Hill and the team and it's only right that such an iconic car deserves to have the final pieces in place to complete her!""' The new gearbox will be part of a long term"
"the small newspapers seen in the Evening Standard cartoon, such as 'Alf Breaks Another Record' or 'Alf Wins Again'. Alf Engers Alfred Robert Engers (born 1 June 1940) is an English former racing cyclist who set national records and won national individual time trial championships from 1959 to the late 1970s. He established a British record of 49 minutes and 24 seconds in 1978, averaging 30.364 mph (49.190 km/h). He was the first rider to beat 50 minutes and thus the first to average more than . Engers was born in Southgate in North London. He worked night shifts as"
"Cameron Donald Cameron Donald (born 28 September 1977 in Melbourne, Australia) is a professional motorcycle racer who has raced at the Macau Grand Prix, the North West 200 and the Isle of Man TT Races. He lives in Warrandyte, Victoria in Australia. During the racing season Cameron lives in Northern Ireland. Donald has had many racing achievements, including Cameron rode for Uel Duncan in 2007, after a highly successful 2006 season with them. His dreams of a TT win in 2007 were shattered at the North West 200, where he broke a collarbone in an incident at the Juniper Chicane."