And so it was to be, on a cold July morning in 1964, that Donald Campbell would smash through the 400mph barrier, securing the Land Speed World Record and putting an end to this undulating and all-consuming endeavour. Of all the challenges he faced, it had been the salt - that crystalline structure of glimmering brightness - that had proven to be Donald’s biggest enemy. It’s for that reason, echoing the adversarial role that the salt played in each of the stages towards success, that we’ve replicated, on the dial of the Eyre, that glittering salty surface of the wondrous, elusive Lake Eyre salt flats.
