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OCTOBER 6,r1927 " FLIGHT " Photograph RETURN OF THE SCHNEIDER TEAM : The car with the pilots being driven along in front of the enclosures to enable the spectators to express their appreciation of the British victory. 50 press photographers bent on getting in each other's way, and the Schneider team was officially welcomed home by the Under-Secretary of State for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, on behalf of the Air Ministry, the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, being prevented from being present as he was acting as Minister in Attendance on the King at Balmoral. With Sir Philip Sassoon (who, incidentally had flown over from Lympne earlier in the afternoon, in a Fairey IIIF), in the official enclosure were Air Marshal Sir John Salmond, Air Vice-Marshal Brooke-Popham, Mr. C. Bertram, Deputy Director of Civil Aviation, Lord Thomson, Chairman of the Royal Aero Club, Mr. Hubert Scott Paine, of Imperial Airways, and representatives of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Royal Aero Club, Air League, and S.B.A.C. Councillor J. A. Leckie, Mayor of Walsall, with Mr. Wm. I'reston, M.P., for that borough, and Mr. P. Thomas, assistant town clerk, were also present to convey to Flight-Lieut. Webster the congratulations of his native town. As soon as the official reception was over, the Schneider team were put into a waiting motor-car and were driven along in front of the enclosure, where the crowds made up in enthu- siasm for what they lacked in numbers. This task accomplished, the team were taken to a room in the office buildings of Imperial Airways, and here the team's CO., Air Vice-Marshal Scarlett, said a few words concerning the race. He stressed the point that they had gone out as a team, they worked there as a team, they won the race as a team, and brought back the trophy as a team. (It may be m m Return of the Schneider Team : The admonition paraded before the enclosures at Croydon proved rather superflu- ous, as the terri- ble weather had prevented more than a very small number of spec- tators from wel- coming the win- ners home. [" FLIOHT " Photograph SIS S S m
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