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Ifjjwf] MAY 7, 1910. LONDON TO MANCHESTER. £10,000 MORE FOR PRIZES. IN our last issue we were able to give details regarding the actual flight for the j£ 10,000 prize offered by the DaHly Mail for a flight from London to Manchester. Following the winning of the prize, and the lormal announcement by the Royal Aero Club that the rules had been complied with, the successful aviator has had to endure one continuous round of festivities and congratulations, and in these, the honour accorded to Mr. Claude Grahame-White, who made such a plucky attempt to win the prize for Great Britain, was only second to that rendered to Paulhan himself. On Saturday both aviators were entertained at a dejeuner given by the Daily Mail at the Savoy Hotel, at which Mr. Thomas Marlowe, Editor of the Daily Mail, presided, in the absence, through indisposition, of Lord Northcliffe, and among those present besides M. and Mme. Paulhan, Mr. Claude Grahame-Whrte and his mother and sister, were the French Ambassador, M. Cambon, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Blyth, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Suffield, Lord and Lady Llan- gattock, Lord Lonsdale, Lord Hardwicke, Baron de Forest, the Comte de Lastours, Sir Rufus Isaacs, Sir Edward Carson, Sir James Crichton Browne, Sir William Bailey, Sir David Gill, Sir Edward Henry, Sir George Lewis, Sir Norman Lockyer, Sir Hiram Maxim, Sir Horace Regnart, Sir James S. Winter, Admiral Sir E. Seymour, Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, Major Baden-Powell, Mr. Roger Wallace (Chairman of the Royal Aero Club), Mr. Moore-Brabazon, Mr. Holt Thomas, Mr. Charles Nicholson, M.P.', Mr. Sheriff Slazenger, the Hon. C. S. Rolls, and Mr. H. Perrin. After the toast of '' The King and the President of the French Republic" had been honoured, the Chairman, after expressing the regret that Lord Northcliffe was not present in person to hand over the prize, the idea of which he conceived after seeing Mr. Farman fly in 1906, went on to say that Lord Northcliffe authorised him to announce that the Daily Mail would offer another ;£ 10,000 for aviation. Although the conditions could not be then made public, it was suggested that it might be given for a flight from London to Edinburgh and back, and in like manner to Paris. He then asked M. Cambon to present the prize, which took the form of a cheque enclosed in a gold casket. After referring to the fact that only last year he assisted at a similar function given in honour of another compatriot, M. Bleriot, and that they had the right to fee) proud of France, M. Cambon. went on to point out how proud Britain should be of Mr. Grahame-White, and to applaud the good feeling which never ceased to exist between the two rivals. In a modest speech in French M. Paulhan acknowledged the gift, and emphasised how much these large prizes did to forward the cause of aviation. He was proud to have won the prize, because it had been so difficult ^w" * w »W>f .w "cur Kuu» sio.aoo FM« /O Jr ' LONDON Unique memento of the London-Manchester flight for £10,000 published by the Weekly Despatch.—The autographs on the menu card of the Paulhan Banquet at the Savoy Hotel when the £10,000 cheque was presented to the victor are M. Paulhan, Mr. Grahame-White, Mme. Paulhan, Mrs. Grahame-Wbite, Miss Grahame-White, the Duke of Argyll (President Royal Aero Club), Mr. T. Marlowe (Editor of the Dailv Mail), representing Lord Northcliffe). THE GREAT LONDON-MANCHESTER FLIGHT.—Flashlight photograph at Lichfield of Paulhan's Henry Farman machine before his start for finishing the race on Wednesday morning, April 27th. 350
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