Word: besler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...address of Brothers George & William Besler is No. 4053 Harland St., Emeryville, Calif...
With reference to the most interesting article "Flight by Steam," p. 34 of your issue of April 24, I should like to get the address of the Besler Bros, in order to get some information on the steam-powered airplane they were able to take into...
While the Besler flight was regarded as a significant as well as an historic experiment, few observers were prepared to guess whether the steam-engine idea will get farther than the Diesel, which has yet to be accepted by aviation...
...Inventors are George D. Besler, 31, and his brother William J., 29, sons of Board Chairman George William Besler of Central Railroad of New Jersey. Associated with them was their Princeton classmate (class of 1926) Clement Bates Ellery Harts, son of Brigadier-General null Wright Harts, onetime military attache of the U. S. Embassy in Paris...
...youngsters at Hun School in Princeton, N. J. the Besler boys were usually mistaken for twins. (Now William is dark, slender; George is blond, stocky, has a mustache.) As Princeton undergraduates they played polo, learned to fly, owned planes. As graduates they became steam-engine conscious, as are all Beslers because of the family's substantial interest in Davenport Locomotive Works. They went to California and got control of Doble Steam Motor Corp., which had been in difficulties, began producing steam automobiles, steam trucks and busses. About three years ago the Beslers and their friend Clement Harts began experiments...