The Archive · 1936

£6,000 FOR AIR RACE VICTIMS' FAMILIES

London, Oct. 6.

The official announcement that £6,000—the balance of the prize money in the England to Johannes burg air race—would be donated to the wives and dependents of Findlay trid Morgan who were killed in an accident at Abercorn on October 1, was made to-day by the chairman of the Light Plane Club of South Africa during an informal luncheon given by the Alr Race Committee to OWA, Scott and Giles Guthrie, winners of the race, The chairman stated that Mr. I. Schlesinger, sponsor of the race and donor of the prize money, hed decided to grant £23,000 each fo Mrs. Findley and Mrs, Morgan and the balance of £2,000 would be paid into a trust fund for the benefit of their children—Wireless throug Reuter.

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