Mallard — How the 'Blue Streak' Broke the World Speed Record by author Don Hale
Mallard — How the 'Blue Streak' Broke the World Speed Record, by Don Hale OBE - Special book review by John Woodcock from the Yorkshire Post reports . The revised best selling book about Mallard's epic adventures - now being promoted by Coast and Country online magazine. coastandcountry.blog donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2026 Mallard - the railway marvel that beat the world by Don Hale...revised edition book with more photographs. Now available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/48CKoeb For those who marvel at the British star of the National Railway Museum, a new book contains some startling disclosures. The Nazis and an Italian car designer played their part in Mallard's world speed record. Now published by The History Press. In the age of steam, the footplate rather than a football, was the route to celebrity. Unbelievable though it seems now, engine drivers on the East Coast Main Line were almost as famous as today's soccer stars. The London & North Eastern Railway s...