Where did Malcolm Campbell set a water speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. in 1938?
Water speed record new record of on Ullswater in July 1955. Campbell and "K7" went on to break the record a further six times over the next nine years in the USA and England (Coniston Water), finally increasing it to at Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia in 1964. Campbell thus became the most prolific water speed record breaker of all time. At the time Campbell set the absolute record, the piston-powered propeller-driven record was held by the George Simons' "Miss U.S. I" at . This record was set at Guntersville, Alabama in 1962 by Roy Duby and stood for 38 years. Donald Campbell's
British land speed record British land speed record The British land speed record is the fastest land speed achieved by a vehicle in the United Kingdom, as opposed to one on water or in the air. It is standardised as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs in opposite directions. On 25 September 1924, Malcolm Campbell driving the 350 hp Sunbeam Blue Bird set records for the Flying Mile (146.16 m.p.h.) and Flying Kilometre (146.15 m.p.h.) at Pendine Sands, in Wales. On 21 July 1925, Malcolm Campbell, Sunbeam Blue Bird, at Pendine Sands, broke the records for the Flying