Word: zantford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the two best builders of U. S. racing planes were Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville and James Robert ("Jimmy") Wedell. Between their fat little Gee-Bee's and Wedell-Williams Specials it was a toss-up in any race. Last February "Granny" Granville was killed in one of his own planes at Spartanburg, S. C. (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week Jimmy Wedell was killed in a Gypsy Moth near Patterson, La. A student taking his first flight was believed to have "frozen" to the stick, stalled the plane...
Granville's Luck. Two years ago Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville was one of the two most successful manufacturers of racing planes in the U. S. His factory at Springfield, Mass. turned out the Gee Bee (Granville Brothers) in which Jimmy Doolittle set a world's record (294 m. p. h.). Some people who had been interested in Bellanca were ready to finance Granny Granville on toward bigger things. Then he had bad luck when his two entries cracked up at Indianapolis last summer during the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race (TIME, July 10). Three months ago his backers withdrew...
...Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville, 32, is eldest of five brothers. After two years as a mechanic in the Chevrolet factory he started a garage in Arlington, Mass., took in Brother Thomas. That was in 1919. When the garage business was running smoothly, they formed Granville Bros. Air Service. All they needed was a plane and someone to fly it, both of which they hired. Their education progressed. They established a repair service at Boston Airport, did so much business that soon there was room for Brothers Edward, Mark, Robert. In time, all but Tom got pilots' licenses...
...Brothers Granville had rebuilt so many crashes they were ready to build planes of their own. Zantford Granville was the designer, the four younger brothers craftsmen, mechanics. Their first product, the Gee-Bee Sportster, won the favor of Maude Tait Moriarity, woman racing pilot. She persuaded her father, James C. Tait, rich ice cream maker of Springfield, Mass., to back the Granvilles with a factory in Springfield...
...latest ship accounts for Granville's new importance, and answers an often-heard question: "What good are air races?" The latest Gee-Bee is of radical design, a fat bumblebee of a plane with small wings and an enormous tail. Wags dubbed it "the flying silo." Last week Zantford Granville began construction of a barrel-shaped transport ship patterned directly after the racer. Its wing is larger but its fuselage is barrel-shaped, its tail big, its nose fat to hold a 700-h.p. Cyclone. With pilot & seven passengers it is supposed to cruise 197 m.p.h...
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