Papers relating to Dunlop’s involvement with Donald Campbell and the Bluebird Record attempts
Description: Papers, including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, notes, telegrams, press releases, relating to: Donald Campbell's successful attempt on the World Land Speed Record at Lake Eyre, Australia; Campbell's request for tyres and wheels, 1966 (see DUNLOP/3) including issue over the ownership of the tyres supplied by Dunlop for Campbell's record attempt in Australia; exhibition of the Bluebird tyres and wheels at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu; purchase of the Bluebird car by the Science Museum and debate of the ownership of the wheels and tyres.
Date: 01/01/1958 - 31/12/1984
Last import: September 11, 2017