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Auction: 369 - Autographs & Documents e-Auction featuring the Mike Roth Aviation Collection Part II
Lot: 37

1930 Collier Trophy Award. Recommendations for Godfrey L. Cabot as awardee by Harold Evans Hartney -- Canadian-born WWI flying ace who served first with the RAF, then the USAAS. One-page, typed on Aviation Business Bureau letterhead, Sept. 29, 1930 signed by Harold E. Hartney suggesting Cabot and noting that Hartney has written for Cabot's permission to submit an application; Three-page, typed recommendation, Oct. 17, 1930 of Cabot for the trophy for his "outstanding contributions to aeronautics in 1930 by the completion, after ten years of attention to the subject, of a successful device for loading from the ground, while in flight, cargo or fuel." Signed below by Hartney; along with copy of same and copies of Oct.21 and 23 Committee response. Staplehole top left; and Oct. 21, 1930Letter from Godfrey Cabot who refers to Hartney's letter, notes that the recommendation for the award should also include A.W. Card, and offers some additional observations. He signs below. Staplehole top left. Fine.

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