Unseen
Donald Campbell speed record footage restored
A
BBC News (Hampshire & Isle of Wight) report on 16th July 2014 provides unseen
family footage of Donald Campbell breaking the land and water speed records in
1964. It's been restored to mark the 50th anniversaries of the two records.
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family footage of Donald Campbell breaking the land and water speed records in
1964 has been restored to mark the 50th anniversaries of those records. That year
in Australia, Campbell set a new land speed record of 403.10mph (644.96km/h) on
the dry bed of Lake Eyre on 17th July. On water he reached 276.33mph (444.71km/h)
at Lake Dumbleyung on 31st December. He
is the only person to have broken both records in the same year.
The
film, How Long A Mile, which Campbell directed, has been restored at Hampshire's
Beaulieu Motor Museum.
BBC
South Today's Paul Clifton has been speaking to Campbell's nephew Don Wales. More
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