The previous record had been held by Don Wales, the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell.

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Project Runningblade's mower is driven by Don Wales, whose grandfather Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record at seven-mile long Pendine Sands in 1924.

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The Bluebird Club on the King's Road is believed to have housed one of the cars in which Sir Malcolm Campbell set one of his nine land speed records.

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