SCHNEIDER CUP.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 December 1927, Page 5

SCHNEIDER CUP.

CONTEST EVERY TWO YEARS PROPOSED.

BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT 1 (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 16.

The desirability of holding the Schneider trophy contest every -two years instead of annually has been discussed between the British Air Minister (Sir Samuel Iloare) and General Balbo (Italian Under-Secretary for Air), who is paying a short visit to London.

There is a general agreement that the interval of one year is insufficient to allow of adequate progress between the successive contests in the technical design of marine aircraft development, which was the express object of the founder of the trophy, M. Jacques Sell neider. The British and Italian Governments have therefore decided that they will support a project for an amendment in the rules to provide that in future the contests shall take, place biennially. As the time may not admit of a formal alteration of the rules before the date of entries for the 1928 contest, they have further mutually agreed to notify the aeronautical bodies concerned in Italy and Great Britain that they do not propose to support an Italian or a British entry in 1928, provided other countries which are possible competitors signify their willingness to adopt the same course .

The United States, French and German authorities have been informally consulted, and are understood to concur with the above proposals.