The Bluebird is the fastest electric vehicle in Europe. The present car - the second powered by electricity to be built under the name - holds the UK land speed record for electric vehicles at ...

To celebrate cars like the F1 and ... became the last person to set a land speed record without jet propulsion in 1964 when he clocked 403.10 mph in a Bluebird-Proteus CN7 with a 4,000-hp gas ...

Bluebird engineer David Aldred to take on world water speed record attempt at Coniston in the Lake District with new hydroplane Longbow.

The first is the CN7, named after the Bluebird Proteus CN7, a gas turbine-powered car that earned Donald Campbell the World Land Speed Record in 1964. Featuring a blue dial reminiscent of the ...

A Lancashire man who was involved in the rebuild of Donald Campbell's record-breaking Bluebird hydroplane craft is ...

Also in 1964 he set a new world land speed record of 403.10 mph at Lake Eyre in Australia. On 4 January 1967 Donald Campbell was on Coniston Water in Bluebird when the front of the boat flipped up ...

David Aldred worked on the restoration of Donald Campbell's Bluebird ... "The record is 317mph. So that's what we're focusing on at the moment," Mr Aldred said. "Unlike a land speed record where ...