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1923
1923 - 0598.PDF
OCTOBER 4, 1923 PERS6NALITIES AT COWES : On the left is seen, sitting on the gunwale of a dinghy, the D. of R.% General Bagnall-Wild, while behind are Major Seawright, Colonel Darby, and Mr. Saunders. The group on the rightincludes Capt. Goodman-Crouch,'_Mr. Withers, and Mr. Robert Blackburn. ' to Southampton, having work to do in town over the week-end, he will leave it to a more able pen to describe another race, a competition for first place in hospitality, which is stated to have taken place during the afternoon and evening of September 28. The sea, as the evening wore on, is 1 elieved to have got up considerably, and several competitors are believed to have had difficulty in passing their navigability tests. SCHNEIDER RACE CELEBRATIONS FOLLOWING the finish of the race, a lunch at the Royal LondonYacht Club, at the invitation of Mr. S. E. Saunders, took place to welcome the pilots, competitors and visitors for the event.In proposing the health of their host, General Sir Sefton Brancker referred to the splendid help to the Royal AeroClub given by Mr. Saunders in the organisation of the race. Mr. Saunders said he had spent fifty years of his workinglife in building boats, and he thought that as a pioneer he was generally about fifty years before his time—a very bighandicap to work against. It was, he considered, failure which led to success, and he thought that day's lesson was agreat one. By way of emphasis, he mentioned that his work for motor boats had in twenty years brought their speed upfrom 17 to 65 knots—and that was about the limit on the water. That had helped considerably to design for the air. Hewas the first to build a flying boat in this country, and he now FRENCH REPRESENTATIVES AT THE SCHNEIDER CUP: The group on the left shows M. Pelletier d'Oisy, M. Hurel, M. Conflenti, and M. Santoni, pilots, designer, and constructor respectively of the C.A.M.S. machines, On the right is M. Latham, designer and constructor of the Latham twin-engined L.I, while in the centre is a portrait of. M. Duhamel, the Latham pilot, who made an extraordinarily fine flight from France to Cowes on the Tuesday before the race, in very boisterous weather. 598
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