Leo Villa was the long-serving engineer/mechanic of both Sir Malcolm Campbell and Donald Campbell. He received an OBE in June 1976 for services to land and water speed records. Click here. www.bluebird-electric.net -Leo Villa story “At first sight Lake Dumbleyung was not impressive and the stumps of the “wattle” or withered gum trees sticking up out of […]
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Featured photo of Bluebird and boat: Col & Joan Ward’s Collection Memories of Keith Westbrook. Starter of the Bluebird Keith has strong memories of being at Lake Dumbleyung and being the ‘starter’ for the Bluebird. Friends with Brian Bracknell and living in Dumbleyung in 1964 working as a carrier, he was keen […]
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Gary Smith who was also at Lake Dumbleyung when Donald Campbell was there in 1964, lives close by at Katanning. The district has had some very heavy rains over the past weekend which has led to flood water runoff coming from the east along the Lake Dumbleyung catchment into Lake Dumbleyung. It won’t fill the […]
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