AIR RACE TO AFRICA
PRELIMINARY TESTS MACHINES CHECKED IN t (Tieed. Sept. 25, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 24. Nine machines have choeiteii m at Portsmouth for the purpose of the preliminary tests- for the London-.) oluumcsliurg air race. ■ The competitors are Max Findlay and Ken Waller, an Air Speed Envoy ; Victor Smith, in a Miles Sparrow Hawk; Flying Officer A. Cloiiston, in a Miles Hawkes AT; K. Alington and Lieut. P. Booth, in a 13 A Eagle; I). Llewellyn in a Percival Vega 'Gull; Tommy Rose and ■Tael; Bagslmv in a B A IV Double F.iagle; 0. W. A. Scott and Giles Outline in a Percival Yoga (lull; Major A. Miller, in a Percival Mew Gull; and Captain S. Raise, in a Percival Mew Gull. A special application is likely on behalf of Percival A r ega Gull entered by Lieutenants Chaiul and Randolph, the arrival of which has been delayed. It is> expected that 50,000 people will watch the start- at dawn on September 2-0.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 6
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