CENTENARY RACE
COMPETITOR’S VIEWS LESSONS SHELVED BY BRITAIN >:• LONDON, 18th April. “It is absolute conceit for the British Government and public to take credit for the, success of the Melbourne air race,” says,Lieutenant 0. CathcartJones, one of the Centenary race pilots, in the “Saturday Review.” The airman adds that before last October, Britain was 10 years behind the rest of the world and that she failed to finance the race. “No country requires faster inter-im-perial air communication than Britain,” says Lieutenant Cathcart-Jones, “yet the lessons of the race have been shelved. “But for Mr A. 0. Edwards (who financed the winning machine) the race would have been an all-American success. “Americans asserted that the race rides had been framed for the purpose of keeping out standard high-speed American craft. “It is not likely that Britain will be able to dispute American claims of superiority, since she has made no efforts to prepare suitable aircraft for the Wasbington-Buenos Aires race.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1935, Page 10
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159CENTENARY RACE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1935, Page 10
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