CAPTAIN CAMPBELL
HONOURED BY THE KING.
A KNIGHTHOOD CONFERRED.
(British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.)
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 19.
The King has conferred a knighthood upon Captain Malcolm Campbell, who reached Plymouth this morning on the Mauretania, He will continue his journey by the liner to Southampton, where ’ a civic reception and a banquet await him.
The news of his honour was conveyed to Captain Campbell in a note from the Prime Minister, and was handed to him immediately the Mauretania reached Southampton. The note said: “ I am glad to inform you that his Majesty has been pleased to approve that the honour of a knighthood be conferred upon you.” The* Prime Minister’s message expressed his personal congratulations. In an interview. Captain Campbell said, he wished the United States’ .• aspirant for the record the best of luck. If a speed of 300 miles per hour—which, it was stated, the new car would achieve —were reached, he would attempt to go one better and regain the title. The Bluebird had not done her fastest yet; Visibility was one of the greatest obstacles to be overcome by future record-breakers. Captain Campbell will leave Southampton for London to-morrow, and a great popular welcome is in preparation. «
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 13
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