Word: zantford
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...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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