DUMBLEYUNG (WA)
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1964 - LAKE DUMBLEYUNG
This was the year that Donald Campbell son of sir Malcom Campbell broke the world water speed record in his jet boat Bluebird K7 on lake Dumbleyung, the record speed achieved was 276.3 mph, Campbell would acheive this after allready breaking the world land speed record preiously in the same calander year on Lake Eyre South Australia.
Donald Campbell was killed in January of 1967 when Bluebird flipped and broke up at a speed in excess of 300 miles per hour.
Donald Campbell was killed in January of 1967 when Bluebird flipped and broke up at a speed in excess of 300 miles per hour.
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2012 - WEST AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER REPORTED
Many years ago we came across truckie Brian Bracknell, also known as Bracky he told us he had rolled his wheels across millions of kilometres of WA roads since 1952.
His most famous load was Donald Campbell's speedboat in July 1964, Campbell set a land speed record of 403.1 mph (648.73 km/ph) on Lake Eyre in South Australia, and headed to Lake Dumbleyung in a bid to set a new record on water in the same year Bracky was the Ampol fuel agent in Dumbleyung.
He took fuel to the lakeside camp where Campbell's team was based and was among the select few allowed to the water's edge when the boat was being prepared for a run. Campbell reached his goal by the skin of his teeth, On New Years Eve Bluebird clocked 444.71 km/ph, Bracky then carried Bluebird on its celebration tour
through the wheatbelt to Perth, and later took it to Kalgoorlie here it was put on an interstate train.
There's the backstory, Bracky contacted us again recently and sent us a copy of his book, Have Wife Must Travel.