British racing motorist born at Chislehurst…

British racing motorist born at Chislehurst, Kent, in 1885, who called every one of his record cars Bluebird after a play by Maeterlinck. He took the land speed record nine times, first on Pendine Sands in Wales, later at Daytona Beach in Florida, and in 1935 became the first driver past three hundred miles per hour, at Bonneville. His son Donald later died on Coniston Water pursuing a similar record.

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