BLUEBIRD PROJECT
Wife Defends Campbell (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, August 23. The Belgian-born wife of Donald Campbell last night lashed out at the attacks made on her husband in the Bluebird speed project controversy. “I could strangle certain people over the Bluebird row,” Mrs Tonia Campbell said. She could not keep quiet about her anger; “I am furious,” she said. The bid by Campbell was stopped in May because rains flooded the testing site at Lake Eyre. “I saw him climb out of the Bluebird, eyes shining with excitement when he had driven her for the first time over the 12-miie track at 240 miles an hour,” Mrs Campbell said. Then the storm came; that terrible, terrible rain that finished everything. It was heartbreaking. “How can people say he did not try? It is easy to speak from armchairs," she said. Mrs Campbell, a cabaret performer before she mar. ried, will return to Australia in October to fulfil television and cabaret engagements.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30219, 26 August 1963, Page 8
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