SCHNEIDER CUP
ONLY TWO RIVALS LEFT. (United Press ' Telegraph— (^pypight).■v The “Daily Chronicle’s” air correspondent says that the coming-Schneider Gup air race is likely to be 'the last of these contests for many years. The expense of organising a team! is'-intoler-able, as the new racing aero are subject to ‘such>stv-strajji their effective working life is only about tive' Kours. It now costs a quarter of a million sterling to build the necessary series of super-speed machines, and to train the expert -pilots. . Hence the Governments are taking over the task. France has already withdrawn, and it is doubtful whether the United States’ solitary entry will develop sufficient speed, so that therefore the real contestants are likely to be only Britain and Italy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1929, Page 6
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122SCHNEIDER CUP Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1929, Page 6
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