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Donald Campbell: a group comprising a 1956 two-page letter on…
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Melbourne
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24-Feb-2019
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Donald Campbell: a group comprising a 1956 two-page letter on his personal letterhead regarding the writer's ingenious idea for a new method of attachment for automobile road wheels, two postcards of 'Bluebird K7', plus large photograph of 'Bluebird K7' with inset portrait. All 4 items are signed in ink by Campbell. Donald Campbell (British, 1921-1967) set eight absolute world speed records on water and land in the 1950s & 1960s. He remains the only person to set both land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston water in England in Bluebird K7.
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