Tests Before "Bluebird" Trials

Series

Series Name

Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

54/82

Date Released

21 Oct 1954

Date covered

12 Oct 1954

Length of issue (in feet)

674

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Miss World
2. 2Holland’s Worst Post-War Fire
3. 3Tests Before "Bluebird" Trials
4. 4Helicopter Pipe-Lift
5. 5Haile Selassie At Guildhall
6. 6Britain’s Cars On Parade
7. *Cardiff - Scotland 1, Wales 0

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

Donald Campbell tests an underwater escape apparatus before making a world water speed record bid

Keywords

Ships and boats; Records

Locations

Surbiton

Credits:

Camera

Norman William Roper

Camera

Robert Kenneth Leslie Gordon

Length of story (in feet)

95

Story extras:

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