“THREE OF US”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19985, 18 December 1934, Page 11

“THREE OF US”

SUCCESS OF TEAM WORK IN FLYING RACE United Press Association—By Electric Telegrarh—Copyright LONDON, December 16. Messrs Scott and Black were guests of “The News-Chronicle” at the dinner at Claridge’s, where they emphasised the triumph of team work, for, the “three of us”—the Comet making up the trio; They said that Australia more than Britain recognised the value of team Work, without which the Empire could not be solidified. Lieutenant-Colonel Shelmerdine, Director of Civil Aviation, hinted at an early visit to Australia and suggested that the Australian Flying Corps, was born in Egypt after Gallipoli, when a deputation of diggers asked him as adjutant to the late Sir Geoffrey Salmond, to incorporate them in the R.A.F. Mr Bruce criticised the belittlers of British enterprise and remarked: “We are not so foolish as to have imagined that proposals are contemplated providing for a British service throughout Europe better than anything anyone else can supply. Mr Cathcart Jones urged that England should emulate Australia and provide a £20,000 round the world race prize limited to aeroplanes carrying a minimum of four passengers.