This rare!! superbly professionally framed display contains a personally hand signed ink signature by Malcolm Campbell.
The size of this display is 171/2 x 181/2" and has been framed in gold with a mottled effect around the edge.
The mount board is blue velvet which gives this item a stunning look.
Please accept my apologies for my poor photography.
Sir Malcolm Campbell (11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was an English racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called Blue Bird. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records.
Malcolm Campbell had known of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for some years, but after his experience at Verneuk Pan in 1929, he had decided that it was better to deal with the devil you know and had decided to continue his attempts at Daytona Beach. But now, with ‘Bluebird’ loosing traction on the sands the racer Ab Jenkins finally lured Campbell to the salt flats at Bonneville. Even with the loss of power due to the high altitude there were many advantages of the salt flats with a harder, flatter surface, longer prepared track and better weather. Malcolm Campbell set off for Bonneville with his son Donald who was now 14 years old, sailing across the Atlantic to New York and then flying on to Salt Lake City. The trip was highly successful and on the 3rd September 1935 Malcolm Campbell achieved his ambition of being the first through the 300mph barrier and the first to set a World Land Speed Record at Bonneville with a two way average over the measured mile of 301.13mph.
Malcolm died after a series of strokes in 1948 in Reigate, Surrey, aged 63 years. He was one of the few land speed record holders of his era to die of natural causes, as so many had died in crashes. His versatile racing on different vehicles made him internationally famous.
