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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 68, 14 December 1920, Page 7

The awards were recently announced in the competitions for civilian aeroplanes conducted by the British Air Ministry. In the competition for land machines, •XBOOO was awarded to Messrs. Handley Pfige as second prize, the first prize of X20.f100 bein}fwithheld lor special reasons. lhe awards in the amphibian class were as follow:—First pi'ize, .£10,000; Viokew ltd.. Vickers' Viking 111.- fitted with 400 li.p. Napier Lion engine; second prize, .£BOOO, Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd., Supermarine Amphibian, Mt«l with 350 h.p. liolls .Hoycc Eagle VIII engine; third prize, X'JOOO, li'airey, Ltd.. l'airey Amphibian, lilted with 400 !?'?',*!"!P ler , Won engine. The successful Vickers Viking" was designed by Mr. It. I\. Pearson, who also designed the famous Vickers "Vimy." It. is the result of tho experimental work that has been earned out by the aviation department of Messrs' Vickers since the armistice. It is the first machine thirned out as the result of that eperimental work, and from that point of view its cost far exceeds the amount of the prize. Fitted with landing wheels, as well as floats, the machine can alight on water and run along the beach, and tho wheels also enable it to surmount sandbanks in shallow water, which would capaizo an ordinary seaplaae. It carries five possengerp at e speed of 120 miles an iour.