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1911
1911 - 0626.PDF
Ambassador, to present the prize to M. Paulhan, Mr. Thos. Marlowe, the editor of the Daily Mail, who presided in the absence through indisposition of Lord Northcliffe, said he was authorised to announce that a second prize of ^io.ooo would be offered. The conditions could not then be made public, but one proposal was that it might be given for a flight to Edinburgh and back and to Paris and back. Suggestions were then invited, and it was ultimately decided that the competition should take the form of a tour round Great Britain, the distance to be about 1,000 miles, similar to that of the first gr-^at motor car trials which played such an important part in the development of the self-pro pelled vehicle. The Committee of the Royal Aero Club then set to work, in consultation with the proprietors of the Daily Mail, to draw up the rules, and after a good many meetings- the rules which are given practically in full on p. 634 were agreed to. At first it was suggested that the route should include a call in the Isle of Wight, but this was abandoned owing to the difficulties- connected with the crossing of the sea. Later, upon representa tions of the importance of Salisbury Plain to military aeronautics,, it was decided to make that the stopping place en roult to Brighton. From the rules it will be seen that the prize of ,£10,000 is to be- awarded to the aviator who makes the journey in the shortest time subject to his duly observing the regulations as to compulsory "resting " times, &c. There are other prizes to be fought for in between ; for instance, Sir George White, chairman of the British and Colonial Aeroplane t^ls '£, the Daily Mail Clrcult of Great Britain, who will be in charge of foreign-built machines, with the exception of Mr. R. C. Kemp, who will pilot a British-built Avro biplane:—!. G. Blanchet; 2. J. Valentine; 3. J. Vedrines? 4. Lieut. H. Bier; 5. A. Beaumont; 6. R. C. Kemp; 7. O. de Montalent; 8. Wynmalen; 9. Lieut. J. C. Portep 10. G. Hamel; 11. E. Audemars. 628
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