CC59 RAF aircraft + Bluebird Car & Boat 1998 Speed Carmarthen FDC

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CC59 RAF aircraft + Bluebird Car & Boat 1998 Speed Carmarthen FDC:
$10.04

British Achievements in Speedcover bearing full set of Royal Mail 1998 Speed stamps cancelled on first day of issue

JS(CC)59 FDC RAFcover commemoratingBritish Achievements in Speed. The cover artwork by Tony Theobald shows Neville Duke\'s Red Hawker Hunter which broke the World Air Speed Record in 1953, Peter Twiss in the Fairey Delta 2 which shattered the World Air Speed Record in 1956 with a blistering 1,100mph+, Sir Henry Segrave\'s Golden Arrow is shown a lovely car which set the Land Speed record at 231.44mph in 1929. No cover would be complete without commemorating the famous Bluebirds and Sir Malcom Campbell is shown in his Bluebird car which in 1935 set the World Land Speed Record at 301.13mph finally Donald Campbell is shown in his Bluebird K7 boat which set the World Speed Record on Water at 276.33mph in 1964.The cover bears the full set of five Royal Mail Speed stamps issued in September 1998 cancelled on the first day of issue with Carmarthen Sir Malcolm Campbell Speed postmark 29.09.98.The stamps depict:
20pSir Malcom Campbell 1925 - 151 mphSunbeam Bluebird
26pSir Henry Seagrave 1926 - 157 mphSunbeam Slug
30pJohn Parry Thomas 1926 - 171mph‘Babs’
43pJohn Cobb 1947 - 394 mphRailton Special
63pDonald Campbell 1964 - 403 mphBluebird CN7

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