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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2192

(x) South Africa
1936 (26 Sept.) London-Johannesburg Schlesinger Air Race
Ephemera
A selection with Official Programme setting out details of the relative entrants and with manuscript notes alongside each regarding the outcome of their flights, two luncheon menus held at the City Airport , Portsmouth signed by thirteen of the competing pilots and another held at the Queen's Hotel, Portsmouth signed by D.W. Llewellyn and Victor Smith, four contemporary photographs of various aircraft. Also Souvenir Programme of an earlier Flying Circus at Cape Town

Note: The race was held coincident to the Empire Exhibition in Johannesburg with prize money of £10,000 being offered by South African financier Mr. I.W. Schlesinger. To be eligible for the prize the 6,500 miles from Portsmouth to Germiston had to be covered in 5 days. Due to varying degrees of bad luck, technical problems and crashes, only one aircraft flown by Scott and Guthrie completed the race

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