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1913
1913 - 0903.PDF
AUGUST 23, 1913. flown.---The course was over six laps of the aerodrome, and there were four starters, as follows:—Marcus D. Manton on the new G.-W. 'bus (4 mins. 41 sees.), Louis Noel on the G.-W.-Maurice Farman (2 mins. 2 sees.), N. Spratt on the 60 h.p. Deperdussin (1 min. 18 sees), and R. Slack on the Morane-Saulnier (scratch). Manton retained the lead all the time, and won easily, and Slack followed 14 sees, after with Spratt 2 sees, behind. The second heat, also of six laps, was made up of E. Baumann on the 35 h.p. Caudron (3 mins. 35 sees.), R. H. Carr on the old G.-W. 'bus (3 mins. 15 sees.), Geo. W. Beatty on the Wright (2 mins.), and P. Verrier on the Maurice Farman (scratch). This heat again resulted in a win for the limit 1/ycsfj man, a very fine fight for second place ensuing between Carr and Beatty, the latter obtaining this position by very skilful piloting, but only by a bare two seconds. The final heat of eight laps resulted in a win for R. Slack (scratch), who thus obtained the trophy and prize presented by the High Commissioner for New Zealand. Manton, the limit man, with 5 mins. 50 sees, start, was put out of the race after only one lap owing to the pump spindle of the engine breaking, which damaged the machine to the extent of a chipped propeller and a hole in the top plane. Baumann, 5 mins. 41 sees., had to start after Manton, and thus had to contend with the latter's backwash at the ou'set, which rather set him back, Beatty passing him on the fifth Up. This the la'ter did in fine style; both F. P. Raynham flying the Avro biplane at Hendon, 929 ' Flight" Copyright.
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