THE "DAILY MAIL" PRIZE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 24 August 1908, Page 2

THE "DAILY MAIL" PRIZE.

OVER £30,000 WAITING TO BE

WON.

(United Press Association—Copyright )

LONDON, August 16. Considerably over £30,000 was waiting last year for the first successful aeroplanist, as the following lists show •' 1. The "Daily Mail" £10,000 prize for the first person who flies from London to Manchester in 24 hours with not

more than two stoppages for petrol 2. £2000 offered by the Adams Manufacturing Company, who own tho British rights in the Antoinette engine, for the winner of the "Daily ■Mail" £10,000 prize, provided his aeroplane is made entirely in the British Empire. 3. £500 from the oditor of the "Autocar for the maker of the petrol engine driving the aeroplane that wins the "Daily Mail" prizs, providing the engine is made by British motor-ear manufacturer-

. £1000 by the proprietors of the "Daily Graphic," and the "Graphic" for the first aoroplanist who, with one or more passengers, flies between two given points not less than a mile apart.

£1000 and a trophy worth £525. offered by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. the editor of tha "Car." Tho first of these two offers is £5 a mile for longest distance covered in any one flight in tbc "Daily Mail" contest. The trophy, which is for perpetual competition, is for the longest distanco covered in any one year from January Ist to December 31st.

6. An international trophy, offered by Mr Norton 'Griffiths, to be competed for in 1907 in connection with the "Daily Mail" race-from London to Manchester, Rnd to go to the aeroplanist who flies the longest distance. In future years tho prize will be completed for in the country of the winner.

£2500 by the Brooklands Automobilo Racing Club for one lap of their motor course (threef miles) to bo done in 18 minutes, or at the rate of 10 miles per hour.

8. £505 by Messrs Ruinard Pere efc . Fils- for the first aeronaut who flies .•irrosa the Channel in. an airship heavier than air before January Ist,

Other prizes still waiting for aerophim'sts include:—

The Archdeacon Pnz^ of £2DOO for Horoplar.es over a d:stanco of half a mile.

Paris to Lor.don, in 3008, £4000 price offered by the Mfttin. and inci^asod by public .subscription to —10,000. Sir David Salomoris's prize, offoro:! last year for a typo heavier than air. Gordon-Bennett International Anliual Challenge Cup. (First competed for in September, 1906). Hedge 3 Butler Challenge Cup, offered by Mr Frank Hedges Butter, for aeroplanes and balloons, starting from London on a fixed date and" travelling the longest distance. Howard de Walden Prize. offered last year for a typo heavier than air.