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...Bendix prize for the meet's longest distance flight went to Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock, N. J. On the last day of the meet he took off from Elmira, climbed to 5,500 ft., found a "street" (chain of cumulus clouds). Swinging beneath it in long, irregular parabolas from cloud to cloud, he proceeded to Ottsville, Pa., where he glided down - 146 miles from Elmira. His flight narrowly missed the U. S. record of 158 miles...
Assembled v. Manufactured. A common characteristic of the majority of truckmakers is that their product is assembled. Motors may be bought from Hercules Motors, Lycoming Manufacturing, Continental Motors or Waukesha, wheels from Budd, axles from Timken, brakes from Bendix. Diamond-T is the fastest selling assembled truck. Stewart and Federal are both assembled. "Assembled" is a fighting word in the truck in- dustry because companies that machine most of their own parts look down their noses at the assemblers, terming their own product "manufactured." This incenses the "assembled" truckmen, for the reason that all motor vehicles-trucks, buses and passenger...
...about up, he heard it, saw the golden Wedell-Williams racer streaking out of the murk for the finish. Ever the showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw...
...little Harold Neumann of Moline, Ill., who had already walked off with the rich Greve Trophy in Designer Howard's atom-small White Mike. The Labor Day crowd of 80,000 was overwhelmingly behind the gaudy Turner and the same golden plane in which he had lost the Bendix Race...
...motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow time of 220.1 m.p.h. on the first occasion that one plane had ever captured both Bendix and Thompson Races. Watching the big white plane whiz past, unhappy Colonel Turner consoled himself with: "It's always better to get down and walk than win a race when the plane's about to catch fire...