A unique gathering took place in London on 12 June celebrating 100 years of the intrepid Campbell family's record-breaking feats.
Gina Campbell QSO (Donald's daughter and record-breaker in her own right), Donald's nephew Don Wales plus Don's son Joe were joined at the Theatre Royal Haymarket by a host of machinery associated with four generations of Campbell and Wales feats.
The timing of the event was to mark 100 years since Sir Malcolm Campbell saw the play Blue Bird that inspired the names of his iconic machines. Since that day the family has achieved more than 30 Land and Water Speed Records.
Sensations on display included Bluebird K3, the first of Sir Malcolm Campbell's legendary boats, designed by Fred Cooper and Reid Railton and powered by the same Rolls-Royce engine as the 1935 Blue Bird car that set a new Land Speed Record at 301mph.
It was alongside the Agfa Bluebird II in which Gina Campbell broke the Woman's World Water Speed Record, at 122.8mph, in 1984.
On the four-wheeled front, the oldest car was the oldest survivor to have worn the Blue Bird tag, the 1912 Lorraine-Dietrich 75hp GP that, after winning the 1912 Dieppe GP with Hemery was found in Paris by Sir Malcolm Campbell, imported to England and raced at Brooklands.
There was also the famous 350hp Sunbeam, Sir Malcolm Campbell's first Land Speed record car, that blasted to nearly 125mph at Pendine Sands in 1925.
Don Wales' record attempts were represented by Bluebird Electric, which after a series of UK records, was shared by Don and his son Joe in a failed bid to up the record to 150mph.
Newest vehicle was the Bluebird GTL Formula-E concept racing car, built for a proposed eight-round series scheduled for 2014, though before that Gina is set to run the restored Bluebird K7 - the boat in which her father lost his life - on Coniston Water next year.