1926

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Automobile excursion, c. 1926

from Liberas

  • Vintage Cars & People said:
    The car on the left appears to be a mid-1920s Chevrolet K Series Sedan. The other car is more difficult to identify. Possibly British, radiator similar to a Morris Bullnose, but not quite.
    What an amazing photograph! Note that the Chevy is LHD, whereas the other car is RHD.
  • Liberas said:
    Vintage Cars & People Thank you very much.

Rene Fonck (LOC)

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  • Richard Norton said:
    René Fonck (1894-1953) French flying ace
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48674
  • Seuss. said:
    From Time Magazine, May 10, 1926
    Fonck. Last week burly little Captain Rene Fonck of France, ace of Allied aces, Inspector General of French Aviation, strode down a gangplank in Manhattan and hurried out to Westbury, L. I., to fire questions at Engineer Igor Sikorsky of Russia. The scene of their talk was the Sikorsky airplane factory. The subject was a monster Sikorsky biplane, the S-35, which was being equipped with three 425 h.p. Gnome-Rhone Jupiter motors specially selected abroad and shipped here by Fonck to drive him, without pausing, from Long Island to Paris next autumn in an effort to win a standing prize of $25,000.* A preliminary non-stop flight, Long Island to Halifax and back, was scheduled for early July.
  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Fonck
    'Colonel René Paul Fonck (27 March 1894 – 18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Entente fighter ace and, when all succeeding aerial conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries are also considered, Fonck still holds the title of "all-time Allied Ace of Aces".'
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    'During the 1920s, Fonck persuaded Igor Sikorsky to redesign the Sikorsky S-35 for the transatlantic race or Orteig Prize. On 21 September 1926, the aircraft crashed on takeoff when the landing gear collapsed, killing two of his three crew members. Charles Lindbergh won the prize seven months later in 1927.'
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks, Seuss. and swanq. We'll update the catalog record.

Victor Salon Orch. (LOC)

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