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SEPTEMBER 3, 1925 Married At Christ Church, Lanark, on August 25, the marriage took place between Flying Officer IAN A. BERTRAM, R.A.F. (late R.N.), and DOROTHY CECIL, only daughter of Colonel and Mrs. R. H. ELTOTT-LOCKHART, of Cleghorn, Lanark. Dr. SIDNEY RICHARD ECCLES DAVIES (late Capt., R.A.F.),B.A. Cantab., D.P.H., Lond., elder son of Sidney Davies, M.D. Oxon, and Mrs. Davies, Cove Hithe, Worthing, wasmarried on August 5, at Keady Parish Church, to DOROTHY CHARLOTTE HOBART, B.A., M.B., D.P.H., second daughter ofH. Hobart Dorman, M.D., and Mrs. Dorman, Willowbank, Keady, County Armagh. The marriage of Flying Officer R. M. DAVY, elder sonof the late Samuel H. M. Davy and of Mrs. Austin Batty, of Sheffield, and Miss DOROTHY STEWART, youngest daughterof the late Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Stewart, Hotel Russell, W.C., took place quietly in London on August 27. THOMAS JOHN KENT (late R.A.F.), eldest son of the late Prof. Kent, F.R.C.S., and Mrs. Kent, of Uptons, Framfield, Sussex, was married on August 25, at All Saints, Kenley, to AGNES MARIA FAIRLIE STIRLING, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Stirling, of Highneld, Kenley, Surrey. The marriage took place on August 12, at All Saints' Church,Brenchley, Kent, of Flying Officer ROBERT DARLEY WHELAN, R.A.F., eldest son of the Rev. P. S. Whelan and Mrs. Whelan, of Brenchley Vicarage, and Miss BARBARA MARION CELIA WREY, younger daughter of Sir Bourchier and Lady W'rey, of Tawsden, Brenchley. Bishop Beaven, late Bishop of Southern Rhodesia, and the Rev. P. S. Whelan officiated. The best man was Flight-Lieutenant S. L. G. Pope, R.A.F. Flight-Lieut. CHARLES HENRY CHAPMAN WOOLLVEN, R.A.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Charles Woollven, of Jersey and Plymouth, was married on August 6 at Holy Trinity, Padding- ton, to ARIEL GWYNNEDD ALICE JEFFERY, daughter of the late Mrs. A. H. Jeffery, 68, Pattison Road, Childs Hill, N.W.2, and Casita, Angmering-on-Sea, Sussex. To be Married The engagement is announced between Air Vice-Marshal ROBERT BROOKE-POPHAM, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., A.F.C., Commandant of the Royal Air Force Staff College, and OPAL, younger daughter of Mr. and the late Mrs. EDGAR HUGONIN, and niece of Sir Granville Wheler, Bt., and Lady Wrheler, of Ledston Hall, Yorkshire, and Otterden Place, Kent. The engagement is announced between Flight-Lieut. ROBERT BRUCE SUTHERLAND, D.F.C., R.A.F., eldest son ofMr. Donald Sutherland, M.P., and Mrs. Sutherland, of Inger- soll, Ontario, and Miss EILEEN DE MAIRIS, only daughter ofMr. and Mrs. Charles RUSH, of Bedford. AMERICAN AVIATION MEETINGS BESIDES the seaplane race for the Schneider Cup, which takes place at Baltimore between October 24 and 29, several big aviation events have been organised in America for the immediate future. Of these perhaps the most important is the " National Aviation Meet," which includes the race for the Pulitzer Trophy, fixed for September 27 to October 7. This year—for this is an annual event—the meeting is being held at Mitchel Field, Long Island, N.Y.: under the New York Chapter, National Aeronautic Association of U.S.A. It is stated that several modifications in the arrangements have been introduced this year, the aim of which is to render the events popular and interesting to the public, and at the same time to encourage both branches—military and civil— of aeronautics. From September 27 to October 7 the " On to New York " contest, for the New York Chapter N.A.A. Troprry, will take place, a popular event in which civilian machines have to fly to New York from various outlying towns and are awarded marks for distance flown, passengers carried, speed, etc. The prizes for this event amount to §3,000, From October 8 to 10 the main events take place. These are as follows :— October 8.—(1) Free-for-all race for two-seater low-powered machines (civilian). Prizes, $2,500. (2) Free-for-all race for two-, three-or four-seater machines (civilian). Prizes, $2,500. (3) Race for two-seater observation type machines (military) for the Liberty Engine Builders'" Trophy and $2,500. October 9.—(4) Duration race for models for Mulvihill Trophy and $500. (5) Light commercial speed and efficiency race for Aviation Town and Country Club of Detroit Trophy and $2,500 (civilian). (6) Light aeroplane contest for Dayton Daily News Trophy and $2,000 (civilian). (7) Race for large capacity machines (military) for Detroit News Air Transport Trophy and $2,000. October 10.—(8) Speed and efficiency race for light aeroplanes (civilian) for Scientific American Trophy and $2,000. (9) Race for Persuit type machine (1st Persuit Group) for John L. Mitchell Trophy! (10) High- speed race (civilian and military) for Pulitzer Trophy and $4,000. Another interesting air contest will be held on Septem- ber 28. This is the " First Inter-City Commercial Airplane Tour " for the " Ford Trophy," held under the auspices of the Detroit Aviation Society. Entries are limited to manu- facturers only, for 'planes capable of a speed of 80 m.p.h. and carrying a commercial load of passengers or equivalent cargo. The tour starts from Dearborn Airport, Detroit, and includes the following route :—Fort Warae, Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit. Aerial Progress in South America COMMERCIAL aviation is slowly but surely making headway in South America. The " Scadta " firm in Colombia, for instance, which has been operating certain air lines in that country during the past two or three years, recently inaugurated its first international service, between Barran- quilla and Maracaibo (Venezuela), in conjunction with the newly-formed Condor Syndicate. The latter is formed by German, Austrian and American interests, and the machines used are twin-engined seaplanes built by the DornierAVal factory in Italy ."The Condor company is also estaBIishing a serOTffrtffrween Curazao and the Panama Canal, via Puerto Colombia, which later will be extended through Central America to Key West, Fla. " Scadta " is to receive a subsidy from the Colombian Government, which will enable it to increase its fleet and reduce fares. James Watt's Workshop ALTHOUGH not directly connected with aviation, we think many of our readers will be interested to know of the latest addition to the many historic items to be seen at the Science M useum, South Kensington. This consists of a reproduction of the private workshop wherein James Watt—one of the world's greatest engineers—spent much of his time. The workshop was in a garret in Watt's residence at Heathfield, Birmingham, which he built in 1790, and lived in till his death in 1829. By his son's direction, the garret was then shut up and remained so up till last year, when the estate having been sold and the house being about to be pulled down, the contents of the workshop were presented to the Museum by Major J. M. Gibson Watt, the head of the family. Suffi- cient structural details from the old house to reproduce the room have been presented by Mr. J. C. Hudson and Mr. A. Round. Among a most heterogenous collection of tools and machinery, perhaps the most interesting objects are two sculpture machines for making copies of busts, &c. To these machines W7att devoted most of his spare time. Many objects of personal interest are to be seen ; his eye piece, his leather apron, his frying-pan and dutch-oven, with which, he cooked his food when he did not wish to be disturbed ; a melancholy interest attaches to a trunk on the floor containing school books of Gregory Watt, his son, who died in early manhood of consumption. 569
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