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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:27 pm |
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I just thought I'd share this, seeing as I had the picture in the scanner. It comes from an old book my Father In Law was getting rid of in a housemove, The Life and Times of King George V, issued on his death, and containing a lot of photos taken during his life.
As the caption says, the scene is Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1935, where Sir Malcom Campbell is about to become the first person to drive at 300mph. The car weighed 6 tons, and had a socking great aeroplane engine. The US airspeed record was only 4mph quicker at the time!
The reason I scanned the picture was to print it out, and put it on my living room wall, under a huge full size print of this picture, by the Scottish artist, Jack Vettriano. The original recently was sold at auction for �468,000.
While researching, I also found this photo. The painting has elements of my first photo, such as Mrs Campbell stood by the cockpit, and this one.
Also present that day was his 15 year old son, Donald. killed in 1967 trying to break one of his father's records on Lake Coniston, he and his boat (also called Bluebird) was recently found and raised from the lakebed. As a kid I had a not very tasteful 'flickbook' of the 300mph accident. It is now being painstakingly rebuilt LINK |
_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
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Tommo Shanter
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 5378
Location: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. - Euripides
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Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:34 pm |
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I remember watching Donald on the TV in B + W flipping over on Coniston. I was nine at the time. |
_________________ £1,052,334.30 (=US$2,121,125.60) lads fake cheques out of circulation (at 11/6/2008)
x135 (at 26/9/2008) x138
"i see your not interested in the transaction but catching your fun, calling names and my muckery of me." - Usman Bello
"You need to visit a good psychiatrist very fast, because some nuts are missing from your brain." - PROF.SOLUDO
"...it is very important you forward the your cycling proficiency certificate which by right belongs to you." - Prof Charles Soludo.
"note i can still change my mind to blow you off and whenever" - T0ny 'The Killerman' Erik
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Nelsonsbattle
419Eater is my life
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 433
Location: New Zealand
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Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:05 am |
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I remember when Donald Campbell was trying to set the World Speed Record at Lake Ayre, Australia. David Jones in downtown Sydney had both the Bluebirds on display, the boat and the car, and I can say that as a little boy I climbed under the ropes and gently - as I had an appreciation of beautiful machinery even then - touched them both on the nose. |
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�the photo you send to me ..... i am have six with you in dreem here� Lad after he got a topless photo of my baiting character.
"I have just came out from the bank with the most humiliation of my life." Dissapointed Lad after a trip to the MG agency.
"tell you die, fuck you,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ooooooo" Samull the scammer on being burned
(Samull's trip from Cotonou, Benin, to Lagos, Nigeria, to meet the lovely Steffy)
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gargstang
Master Baiter
Joined: 01 Jun 2007
Posts: 139
Location: Around the way
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Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:39 pm |
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There are several articles in the latest HOT ROD magazine talking about land speed cars and such. Good read. |
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