PEOPLE came from far and wide to meet atop Pussycat Hill on the northern side of Lake Dumbleyung on New Year’s Eve to witness the ‘active’ memorial tributing Donald Campbell’s success of achieving the World Water Speed Record in 1964. Designer and builder of the memorial, John ‘Jack’ Fewson, travelled from Perth for the day […]
Read More ›My 96 yo father Eric Page was there every morning to catch the action of Bluebird and met Donald. – Linley Filmer
A British TV journalist asked “Are you ever afraid, Donald?” to which he replied “Of course I’m afraid every time I get into the Bluebird. Courage is not being fearless. Courage is overcoming and smashing through fear.”
My dad (John Leathard) remembers seeing the training runs and hearing the roar of the Bluebird from our family farm over many days back then. The farm adjoined Lake Dumbleyung. Nice part of our own family story too. – Dianne Fraser
Dumbleyung and West Australian trucking pioneer Brian Bracknell is indicative of the spirit and commitment truck drivers give to improve the standards of their industry and service to their customers. . ’Bracky’ as he is affectionately known locally, hauled the first load of cattle from Kimbolton Station to Perth, a distance of 2600kms and from that […]
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The Dumbleyung Bluebird Interpretive Centre project is moving forward with new and enthusiastic committee members appointed to the committee at last week’s Dumbleyung Shire Council meeting. The council agreed to three nominations to sit on the committee, appointing new committee members are Rod Frost, Chris Bairstow and Marion Haselby, who replace retiring committee members Don […]
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