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The aircraft is the Stinson SM-1B Detroiter named "Royal Windsor" (c/n M203). The aircraft was to be flown by Canadian bush pilot Duke Schiller (the man on the left side of the frame) and American Phil Wood (brother of famous boat racer Gar Wood) from Windsor, Ontario to Windsor, England in competition to claim the $25,000 prize offered by Carling Brewery in August/September 1927 for successful completion of the trip. (The gentleman on the right side of the frame does not resemble Phil Wood). However, after the disappearance of competitors "Sir John Carling" (another Stinson Detroiter, piloted by Terence Tully and James Medcalf) and "Old Glory" (a Fokker F.VIIA flown by famed US Air Mail pilots Lloyd Bertaud and James DeWitt Hill) and their crews, the competition was called off, and the $25,000 prize money distributed to widowed spouses of the doomed pilots. The backers would call off the attempt by the "Royal Windsor" to cross the Atlantic from West to East, however, the aircraft - along with Schiller and Wood, participated in the fruitless search efforts to find the "Sir John Carling" and "Old Glory." Duke Schiller (b. 1900 - d. 1943) Stinson SM-1B Detroiter "Royal Windsor"

TVL1970 Thank you for the information.

Miss Marie Tailer, "one of society's prettiest girls" according to the NY Times headline(!), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Tailer, married Stuart Bryce Wing, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Stuart Wing, in November 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D17F8385B17738... She divorced Mr. Wing in Reno in 1930, on the grounds of mental cruelty; soon after, she married Harry Granger Gaither, in Baltimore. She died in 1954. An image of her mother, Marie Sterling Tailer (1870-1943): www.nyhistory.org/node/45942

great shot

pennylrichardsca: Thank you for the research on Marie Tailer. We will add some of the information to the description when we update the database.

Beautiful !

Marie Tailer www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107969190

Aeee, smoking a cigarette next to all that nitrocellulose doped fabric and nearby gasoline. Run awaaaay.....

Oh Lord! They had no idea....