BLUEBIRD CN7 50th ANNIVERSARY - JULY 17 2014
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE
ECHO 14 JULY 2014
Two commemorative plaques as a set, depicting the speedace beside his water and land speed record vehicles.
The pair had met at The Savoy in London during a press event, and would go on to get
married less than a month later.
If Lake Coniston had not claimed him, tobacco may well have. Donald was, like so many people today, a victim of nicotine addiction. Cigars and pipe tobacco may not have been so damaging as cigarettes, but whatever form you ingest these carcinogenic fumes, they still stain you teeth, foul your breath and become ingrained in your way of life, right down to the ash tray in the car and home.
BEAULIEU EVENT 19 JULY 2014
You are invited to join in a celebratory evening on Saturday 19 July, to mark the 50th Anniversary of Donald Campbell’s Land Speed Record of 403.10mph in Bluebird CN7. The 50th Anniversary of the water speed record set at Lake Eyre, is the 31st December 2014.
On 17 July 1964, despite mechanical problems and unpredictable weather, Donald Campbell and his team persevered to set a new British Land Speed Record of 403.10mph in
Bluebird CN7 at Lake Eyre in Southern Australia. 50 years on, this iconic vehicle is an integral element of a new display, For Britain &
For The Hell Of
It, at the National Motor Museum, telling the story of the British
Land Speed Records.
Donald shows his affection for his beautiful wife
Tonia and Donald enjoying a day our with their E-Type Jaguar
EVENING PROGRAMME - SATURDAY 19th JULY 2014
19:00
Arrival at the Lecture Theatre in the National Motor Museum Collections' Centre. 19:20
Screening of ‘How Long a Mile…’ A forty minute film on Donald Campbell’s world breaking year of 1964 when he took the land and water speed records. This is the first public showing since being re-digitised by the National Motor Museum Trust Film & Video team at Beaulieu. 20:00 Dinner, served in the National Motor Museum. To see the menu, click here. 21:30
After dinner talk by Tonia
Bern-Campbell. 22:00
Opportunity to explore the Museum. 23:00 Carriages.
Tonia Bern-Campbell seen here with Don Wales in July of 2014
TICKETS
Ticket Price: Individual £110
Ticket Price: Table for Ten £1,000
Prices include VAT. All tickets must be pre-booked.
The CN7 on the salt at Lake Eyre, Australia. Note Land Rover support vehicles
GOODWOOD MAY 29 2014
On 17 July 1964. Much excitement at
Lake Eyre, South Australia, where Donald Campbell and his team set a new land speed record of 403.1mph. Typical British stoicism and determination was required in the face of unpredictable weather and mechanical problems in order for Bluebird CN7 to achieve the record. No-one ever said this stuff was
easy.
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SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL'S BLUE BIRDS
The blue bird legend lives on: Inspired by Reid Railton and his designs for the Napier Lion and Rolls Royce engined Blue Bird LSR cars in the 1930s, with input from Ken Norris - designer of the CN7, the Blueplanet BE3 features instant battery recharging using the patent Bluebird™ cartridge exchange system under license from BMS. This LSR car is also solar assisted. She is designed for speeds in excess of 350mph using clean electricity and could be run at Daytona Beach, Pendine Sands and other historic venues, including Bonneville. BMS require 6 months notice for hire of this vehicle, or 3 months with considerable additional cost attaching.
DONALD CAMPBELL'S BLUEBIRDS (not a bluebird boat)
Donald Campbell was into more than land and water speed records. He was working on a petrol powered jet propelled speedboat which he named 'Jetstar.' He also was a keen motorist and owned many road cars that he painted blue. But, neither himself nor his father, Sir Malcolm, ever owned a road car bearing the blue bird legend, though we feel sure they would have liked to. The Ecostar DC50 concept car is the first. BMS Ltd has inbuilt power loaders in this innovative showcase prototype, to recharge its batteries in under 60 seconds using the patent Bluebird™ cartridge exchange system. The prototype vehicle is also solar assisted, which gives up to 200 free motoring miles a week, weather dependent. This is truly a sustainable car of the future which could be offered as a kit after the car has competed in the Cannonball ZEV Run (UK Jogle). We feel sure that Donald Campbell would have been pleased to see our DC50 as a fitting tribute to the 50th anniversary of his land and water speed records in the same year.
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