Record breaking Bluebird reunited with nose

WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD holder Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Bluebird CN7 car has been reunited with its original nose.

The car’s original nose was damaged and then kept in Coventry since 1960, but it has now been brought back to the car that lives at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, Hampshire.

Damaged during a World Land Speed Record attempt on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA, the nose of the car was sent back to Coventry for repairs and an updated design to help make the car more stable at very high speeds.

However, the nose then lay undiscovered for 50 years until it was unearthed by Motor Panels, the company charged with repairing it. Now called Stadco, the company contacted the National Motor Museum to arrange the handover, along with 26 reels of unique 16mm film of the car.

Stadco’s Product Development Director Paul Jaggers said: ‘We are very proud of our historic link to Bluebird and these artefacts were a very exciting find for us. We were keen to ensure they found the right home and are very pleased to donate them.’

By Press Association reporters