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1910 - 0167.PDF
MARCH 5, 1910. '•9th February, 1910. "DEAR SIRS,—We submitted your letter of the 3rd inst. to our Committee last evening. We presume it is the intention to hold the Aviation Meeting on the Doncaster Racecourse, which we under stand is the property of the Doncaster Corporation. Our Committee therefore consider that any application for an Aviation Meeting should be made by the Doncaster Corporation. We have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your communication, together with this reply, to the Town Clerk of Doncaster. " Yours faithfully, (Signed) " E. CLAREMONT, ) T . . c "HAROLD E. PERRIN, J0lnt Secretaries. " Messrs. C. Bellamy and G. W. Saynor, St. George's Chambers, St. George's Gate, Doncaster." "February 12th, 1910. "DEAR SIR,—I am in receipt of your letter of the 9th inst., enclosing copy of recent correspondence between Messrs. Bellamy and Saynor and yourself regarding a suggested Aviation Meeting this year at Doncaster. " My Corporation know nothing of these persons. I will, how ever, lay your letter before my Council at their next meeting. After the attempt unsuccessfully made last autumn to practically ruin the success of the first Aviation Meeting in England, my Corporation will not, I think, have occasion to enlist the distinguished patronage of your Aero Club this year. "Yours truly, (Signed) R. A. H. TOVEY, Town Clerk. "The Secretary, Aero Club." " 14th February, 1910. "DEAR SIR,—We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 12th inst. Our sole object in writing you was that, having received a letter purporting to come from responsible persons in Doncaster, and being desirous of treating you with courtesy in the matter, we thought you would like to know what was being done. We regret very much to find that you should think fit to reply in a letter which we can only consider as impertinent. We trust that, as you are placing our previous letter before your Committee, that [/TIGHT] you will also place your reply thereto together with this communi cation. " Yours faithfully, (Signed) " E. CLAREMONT, "I , • t £. " HAROLD E. PERRIN, / Jomt Secretaries. " R. A. H. Tovey, Esq., Town Clerk's Office, Doncaster." " 16th February, 1910. " DEAR SIR,—We are instructed by our committee to forward you a copy of the correspondence which has taken place between us and your Town Clerk, Mr. Tovey. Our only wish in writing was to show every courtesy and consideration to the Town of Doncaster, as the gentlemen who wrote to us about the proposed meeting seemed to infer they did so in the name of the town. We are somewhat surprised, therefore, at receiving a letter from the Town Clerk which we can only consider as most discourteous—in fact, impertinent. " With many regrets for troubling you, " Believe us to remain, " Yours faithfully, (Signed) " E. CLAREMONT, 1 T . . c " HAROLD E. PERRIN, j Jomt Secretaries. "The Mayor of Doncaster, Town Hall, Doncaster." » " Town Clerk's Office, Doncaster, " February 25th, 1910. "DEAR SIR,—Your letter of the 9th inst., with enclosures, together with my reply of the 12th inst., and also your further letter to me of the 14th inst., were all read at a meeting of my Council this afternoon, and I am desired to state that the Council approve the letter which I wrote to you on the 12th inst., and resolved that the whole of the correspondence be laid on the table. " Yours faithfully, (Signed) " R. A. H. TOVEY, Town Clerk. " Tbe Secretary, Aero Club." 166, Piccadilly. E. CLAREMONT, CAPT. R.N., HAROLD E. PERRIN, Joint Secretaries. PROGRESS OF FLIGHT ABOUT THE COUNTRY. (NOTE.—Addresses, temporary or permanent, follow in each case the names of the clubs, where communications of our readers can be addressed direct to the Secretary. We would ask Club Secretaries in future to see that the notes regarding their Clubs reach the Editor of FLIGHT, 44, St.Martiu's Lane, London, W.C., by 12 noon on Wednesday at latest.) Aviation Association of Ireland (HOTEL METROPOLE, DUBLIN). A COMMITTEE meeting of the above Association was held the other day, at which a discussion was arranged for March 8th, at eight o'clock, at the Royal College of Science, Dublin. The President, Mr. J. B. Dunlop, will take the chair and has kindly consented to open. The subject for discussion will be " Gliders," and a good discussion is expected, as several members have already promised to speak. The best thanks of the Association have been conveyed to Mr. F. F. C. Trench, who, owing to illness and stress or work, asked the Icommittee Do accept his resignation. Mr. Trench has done a lot of work for the Association, being one of the founders, and well deserves the thanks of all members. Members are reminded that they are allowed to bring a visitor. Birmingham Aero Club (165, HAMPTON STREET). THE Plon. Secretary, Mr. F. A. Thompson, writes as follows :— " As Birmingham's enthusiasts have unfortunately been so slow in constructing full sized machines, and the fact that we have no flying men in this great mechanical city, have all served to stimulate the following. " I have already suggested locally that those gentlemen, who can afford, will subscribe the necessary funds for an aeroplane, and entrust tbe construction with the members of the Birmingham Aero Club. " We have many capable members to undertake such a task, and the construction of such a machine, built and financed by Birming ham citizens and a Birmingham club, from materials obtained in Birmingham, should it prove a success, would be a great incentive to individual enterprise. " One thing that is needed in this city for the encouragement of such an important science and industry is someone to take the initiative—someone to make a start—and I am certain the rest will follow. "The Birmingham Aero Club are willing to undertake the work of construction, but are unable to finance same. " If Birmingham's citizens will subscribe the necessary funds towards the development and education of their city, they can rely upon every possible practical assistance from the members of the Birmingham Aero Club." Bristol and "West of England Ae.C. (STAR LIFE BLDGS. , BRISTOL). IN presiding at the inaugural meeting of the Bristol and West of England Aero Club, at the Grand Hotel, Bristol, Sir George White. Bart., said he was pleased to see that the club had already been formed, and he hoped that a large membership would soon be obtained, which would enable the objects of the club to be realised. Sir George White further remarked that the club would be placed very advantageously, inasmuch as they would obtain from his company all the help they would be enabled to give from the under taking they were contemplating carrying out in connection with aviation. Sir George White was unanimously elected President of the Club, and in accepting the position reiterated that he would be very pleased to do all he could to further the interest of the Club. Kite-Flying Association (27, VICTORY ROAD, WIMBLEDON). IN presiding at the annual meeting of the Kite-Flying Associ ation, Major Baden-Powell congratulated the members on the success attained during their first year. It was decided to alter the name of the Association to the Kite and Model Aeroplane Association, and it was announced that a prize fund would be started for competition, while an exhibition is also being organised. A paper, by Mr. W. R. Dines, was read in his absence, on " Kite Flying at Pyrton Hill," the official station of the Meteorological Office for the investigation of the upper air. Kites were sent up about three times a week, carrying a meteorograph that left a record of temperature, humidity, and wind velocity, results being obtained up to a height of 3,300 ft. There was great room for improvement in the construc tion and design of kites, and the question was of much practical interest, for there were points of similarity between a kite and an aer jplane, and knowledge of the one must react on the other. For mathematical investigation of stability a perfectly uniform air motion,. 163
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