I’M GOING…” with no trace of fear or panic Donald Campbell’s voice came over the radio as the bows of Bluebird began to lift and suddenly flipped backwards end on end before cartwheeling in a cloud of spray, breaking up and sinking.
Spectators on the banks of Lake Coniston watching Campbell make another attempt on the water speed record were horrified, just as viewers of the grainy newsreel footage of the accident have been in the intervening 55 years, and still are today.
January 4, 1967 was a tragic climax to the career of an heroic figure who symbolised