A trophy presented to Sir Malcolm Campbell for breaking the world land speed record 71 years ago is expected to fetch up to £35,000 at auction.
The Lord Wakefield Trophy - awarded to the speed king for reaching 246.086mph at Daytona, Florida on February 5, 1931 - was going under the hammer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed today.
Sir Malcolm, who died in 1949, achieved the feat in a Reid Railton-designed Bluebird car with a Napier broad-arrow engine, earning himself a knighthood - and the trophy.
He went on to become the first man to better 300mph on land on September 3 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
He then turned his attention to water, setting the water speed record soon after. He became the only man to hold the land and water speed records at the same time.
The trophy was being sold at the Bonhams sports sale at the festival near Chichester.
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