SCHNEIDER TROPHY
RACE NEXT SEPTEMBER. THREE NATIONS TO ENTER. (Official Wireless). RUGBY, Jan. 1. Entries for the Schneider Trophy race, which is to be flown over the Solent in September, closed at midnight last night. The competitors will he Great Britain, Italy and France. Britain will rely mainly on the seaplanes which took part in the 1929 race. Two eabh of the Supermarine SB and the Gloucester-Napier V-l seaplanes are now at Felixstowe, where they have been used in the past year to check the data obtained with models in wind tunnel tests. The Air "Ministry is prepared to lend these on certain conditions, but the Government has announced that it will not again take charge of the British entry in the Schneider Trophy rate. The question of raising a team of polits for the British machines is still under consideration.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1931, Page 8
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141SCHNEIDER TROPHY Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1931, Page 8
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