WHEN, last year, the fleet hydroplane Pioneer of the Duke of Westminster all but won the Harmsworth Cup, and showed a speed of forty miles an hour, American motor boat enthusiasts awakened to the ...
A Lancashire man who was involved in the rebuild of Donald Campbell's record-breaking Bluebird hydroplane craft is constructing a new boat to try to set the fastest ever speed on water.
He restored the hydroplane with a team of volunteers at the Bluebird Project in North Shields. On Saturday, the boat was collected ... Campbell broke eight world speed records on water and on ...