Malcolm Campbell

In the late 1930s and 1940s, Sir Malcolm Campbell, 1885‒1948, world water speed record holder, tested and developed Bluebird on this lake, known locally as Campbell’s Lake

Sir Malcolm Campbell, a renowned British speed record breaker, used the lake, locally known as Campbell’s Lake, as a testing site for his Bluebird speedboat in the late 1930s and 1940s. The site is significant for its association with Campbell’s efforts to break the world water speed record.