Vanity Fair UK - 09.2019
Coniston Lobster Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 stands in the North Shields garage of Bill Smith, the entrepreneur who has spent ...
PHIL NOBLE/PA IMAGES (SMITH WITH BLUEBIRD WRECKAGE) The dispute revolves around who controls Bluebird. When the Campbell estate ...
bordering on the antique when she crashed. On the walls, Donald Campbell, a suave block of ice, smiles from photographs. “Two to ...
BRIDGEMAN IMAGES (RUSKIN); © YEVONDE PORTRAIT ARCHIVE/MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY (CAMPBELL); EVERETT COLLECTION HISTORICAL/ALAMY ...
silly cars and doing deep, mixed-gas rebreathe diving, some- times all in the same day, it was only a question of time before I ...
PA IMAGES (BLUEBIRD ON CONISTON WATER) The stand-off between Smith and the Museum drags on like a Dickensian backstory. Asked wh ...
By PETER YORK British Airways is marking its centenary, but 40 years ago it was a troubled airline until it hired an audacious a ...
MARTIN-DM/GETTY IMAGES (SUITCASE); DANIELE VENTURELLI/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES (COLMAN); DAVID M BENETT/GETTY IMAGES (PERRY); “cur ...
MARTIN-DM/GETTY IMAGES (SUITCASE); DANIELE VENTURELLI/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES (COLMAN); DAVID M BENETT/GETTY IMAGES (PERRY); BROA ...
THOUGHT Tra i n of A round-the-world rail aficionado relives memorable moments— and shares the definitive dos and don’ts of life ...
rom deep within a cocoon of blankets, I could hear a steady hiss. My head throb- bing at every turn, I nudged my nose out and br ...
pretending to read, sidling up to families about to unpack lunch, and feigning ig- norance as the berths were made up at bedtime ...
FINE CHINA Left, from top: a Tibetan man waits for yak curry in a local restaurant on the outskirts of Lhasa; Chinese tourists r ...
projects, a fact that would otherwise have escaped me. Gerry booked us a hotel room in Xining for a shower and a snooze before o ...
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SUPERCAR Super Shah, The very first Lamborghini Miura SVJ—often voted the sexiest car of all time—was built in 1971 for the plea ...
L Late in 1971, a telex arrived at the Ministry of the Royal Family in Tehran from the Iranian embassy in Rome: “We are sending ...
symbolised: the slightly caddish, romantic, ’60s Latin backdrop. Underneath the car’s breathtaking beauty, those powerful haunch ...
Rovers and 450 SLC Mercedes—were disposed of at auction in the 1980s, but the fiercely religious proponents of a strict Islamic ...
he human mind is a wonderful thing. It has the capacity to dream, just as John F. Kennedy did in 1962 when he boldly declared: “ ...
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