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From the collection of Jason Ferns.


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.Sir Malcolm Campbell's Goggles
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Times Wide World Photos
From The New York Times, Feb. 15, 1931: THE ENGLISH RACER CUTS DOWN HIS SPEED: CAPTAIN MALCOLM CAMPBELL, After Setting a Record in the Bluebird II and Another for Small Cars, Bicycles Along the Course at Daytona Beach at Fifteen Miles an Hour.
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.How the Goggles Were Acquired
A statement by Peter Corkindale
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On August 29th, 1936, my Great Uncle Allan Mortimer and his son, my cousin and godfather Allan Mortimer, visited Brooklands. They did so as the result of winning a competition in a publication called John Bull. The first prize was £500 and a trip to Brooklands to meet Sir Malcolm Campbell and take a trip around the outer circuit at Brooklands in Bluebird, the car in which Sir Malcolm had broken the world land speed record at Utah in 1935.

Unfortunately, Bluebird was unserviceable and Sir Malcolm had to take them in his Bentley. As Allan was only 16 at the time he was naturally disappointed and Sir Malcolm by way of compensation gave to him his driving goggles stating he had worn them when he had broken the world record, this taken to mean the record he had set in 1935. A photograph was taken at the time by the official photographer for John Bull showing Sir Malcolm greeting my relatives.
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Allan kept these goggles and photograph up until his death in April 2000 when I inherited them. As the only provenance I had were the goggles, photograph and cousin Allan's testimony I began to set about to prove or disprove my belief. Fortunately at the time a Television programme called Find a Fortune was being broadcast so I wrote to them explaining all of the above to them. They asked to see my goggles and I sent them to the researchers, they in turn sent them to Mr. Toby Wilson of Sotheby's. As a result of what he told them, I appeared on the program on Friday 4th August 2000. He has since spoken with me and says he is confident the goggles were Sir Malcolm's due to their quality but having researched further believes they were goggles that he wore in 1932 when he broke the land speed record at Daytona Beach.
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He has formed his belief from a photograph taken immediately after Sir Malcolm had broken the record and had appeared in the Daily Mirror showing him with goggles on his head. These goggles are identical to the ones I own right down to a small label that is still attached to the left lens. Mr. Wilson is as certain as he can be that the goggles are authentic.

Peter Corkindale (signed)
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The goggles were acquired from Mr. Corkindale for this web site in an Ebay auction in April 2003.










From The Illustrated London News, March 5, 1932




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From The The New York Times, Feb. 28, 1932


Heinz von Perckhammer Photo
Meanwhile, in Germany, Campbell and Leo Villa contemplated the fuel tank failure that took Campbell's Sunbeam out of the Grand Prix at Avus on May 22, 1932


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