AN AWARD-winning Lake District tourist attraction, which pays tribute to world land and water speed record breakers Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell, has a new Bluebird exhibit.
Lakeland Motor Museum at Holker Hall now displays a full size, detailed replica of the Ventor type, Vosper built and Rolls-Royce powered Blue Bird K4.
Piloting Blue Bird K4 at Coniston Water on August 19, 1939, Sir Malcolm raised the world water speed record to 141.74mph.
In 1950, Donald took Blue Bird K4 to 152mph, and in 1951 won the Oltranza Cup race at Lake Garda in Italy before the boat, travelling at an estimated 170mph, suffered a structural failure and sank on Coniston Water, where after salvage it was stripped and burned.
The reproduction of Blue Bird K4 was created earlier this year and is now displayed, together with full sized replicas of Sir Malcolm's Blue Bird car, which broke the world speed record in 1935, and the famous jet hydroplane, Bluebird K7, in which Donald Campbell was killed on Coniston Water on January 4, 1967.
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