100 years of Bluebird record-breakers celebrated A hundred years of the Campbell family's record-breaking exploits in a variety of Bluebird vehicles will be celebrated during the unveiling of its latest challenger on Tuesday. With more than 20 world land and water speed records to their name, the Bluebird cars and boats will come together for the very first time outside the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, central London between 8am and 10.30am. The latest Bluebird project, the electric Bluebird circuit racing car for the proposed FIA Formula E series, will be unveiled. In addition to the free Bluebird vehicle exhibition, the general public is invited to a free talk at the theatre at 2pm, when Sir Malcolm's grandchildren Don Wales and Gina Campbell will speak about their family's attraction to record-breaking, which will contain some previously unseen footage. The theatre is a central part of the Bluebird story, because it was there 100 years ago that Sir Malcolm Campbell saw Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird. So the story goes, so inspired was he that he went straight to a local ironmonger to buy the shop's entire stock of blue paint. That night he christened his racing car Blue Bird and went on to win his first race at Brooklands. Some of the cars on display include the first Blue Bird, Sir Malcolm Campbell's 1912 Lorraine-Dietrich Vieux Charles III, as well as the Sunbeam in which Sir Malcolm took his first Land Speed Record in 1924, at 146mph on Pendine Sands. There's also the Bluebird K3 boat in which he took his first Water Speed record in 1937 at 126mph on Lake Maggiore. This will be fired up during the celebrations. More recent vehicles include Bluebird Electric 2000, Don Wales' UK record-holder for an electric car with 137mph on Pendine Sands in August 2000. The Agfa Bluebird II is the craft in which Gina Campbell took the world water speed record for women at 122.8mph in 1984. Last but by no means least, there's the unveiling of the new Bluebird circuit race car for the proposed FIA Formula E race series. Full details at www.trh.co.uk/whatson/bluebirdcentenarycelebration/