He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times, using vehicles called blue bird, including a 1921 grand prix sunbeam. The sunbeam blue bird of malcolm campbell was a 350hp aircraft engined car, already with a significant racing pedigree. 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 Campbell purchased and modified the 350hp car, painted it in his favourite shade of blue and named it 'blue bird' after his brooklands racing cars Seeing live the iconic sunbeam 350hp blue bird, with which sir malcolm campbell achieved the land speed record of 150.76mph on 21 july 1925 at pendine sands (south wales coast), was a.
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 confirmed until the next day as preparations were being made for another run. 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, yet tantalisingly beyond reach, seemed to symbolise his own determined pursuit of ever faster speeds.
