ROUND BRITAIN
SEAPLANE TEST. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, 19th Aiigust. Mr. Hawker, who in the hydro-aero-plane contest for the Daily Mail prize of £8000 for a flight round Britain had gone from Yarmouth to Southampton in four and a-half hours, and then had to retire owing to sunstroke, his place being taken by Mr. Pickles, hopes to make another start on Thursday next. [Mr. Pickles was unfortunate. After a Bhort flight the machine dropped into the sea, and became waterlogged. Pickles and his assistant were rescued.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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88ROUND BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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