Vanity Fair UK – September 2019

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Nearly 53 years after her fatal crash on Coniston, Donald Campbell’s resurrected Bluebird K7 is still rattling teacups. As Bill ...

Coniston Lobster Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 stands in the North Shields garage of Bill Smith, the entrepreneur who has spent ...

PH IL^ NO BL E/ PA IM AG ES (S MI TH W IT H^ B LU EB IRD W RE CK AG E) The dispute revolves around who controls Bluebird. When t ...

bordering on the antique when she crashed. On the walls, Donald Campbell, a suave block of ice, smiles from photographs. “Two to ...

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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 IM AG ES (B LU EB IRD O N^ C ON IST ON W AT ER ) The stand-off between Smith and the Museum drags on like a Dickensian backst ...

By PETER YORK British Airways is marking its centenary, but 40 years ago it was a troubled airline until it hired an audacious a ...

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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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S U PE RC A R Super Shah, The very first Lamborghini Miura SVJ—often voted the sexiest car of all time—was built in 1971 for the ...

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 ...